post she wrote about visiting her native Alberta, where she saw the tar sands up close. She explains a bit about why this kind of individual outreach is so important: "A week after I visited the Canadian Tar Sands “to see for myself” what that area is all about, I received emails from several of my friends and colleagues, encouraging me to join them in Washington, DC for a "peaceful protest" against the proposed pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Texas… I am signed up for a Tar Sands protest at the White House in Washington, DC that has the potential to get the protesters arrested. Do I feel this cause is important enough to take these risks? YES I do. I hope my kids will be proud of me, and that it builds on my legacy and actions to try to raise awareness to the growing reality of climate change that is threatening my children’s future and mine. I want to WAKE UP my neighbors, friends, colleagues and total strangers by showing them that a mo
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BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- The state of California Wednesday sued six of the world's largest automakers over global warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.
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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, was the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions, according to Bill Lockyer, the state attorney general.
The lawsuit names General Motors, Toyota Motor, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Motors, which is the U.S. arm of DaimlerChrysler of Germany, and the North American units of Honda Motor and Nissan Motor of Japan.
"Vehicle emissions are the single most rapidly growing source of the carbon emissions contributing to global warming," Lockyer said, and he would seek "tens or hundreds of millions of dollars" from the automakers.
The lawsuit follows a summer of record-breaking 49C (120F) temperatures in California that killed more than 100 people, and comes less than a month after California lawmakers adopted the nation's first global warming law mandating a cut in greenhouse gas emissions.