Like Lee, the editorial doesn’t buy the excuse that California’s waiver request was done to avoid a “confusing patchwork of state rules.” Rather, it seems designed to do nothing more than delay regulation of GHGs.

In fact, Andy Revkin’s DotEarth Blog notes that until recently, the Bush Administration had actually touted California’s role as “laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy – a truly bottom-up approach to addressing global climate change.”