by Glynn Wilson

Alabama’s attorney general Troy “Toy Boy” King has now placed the state in the inauspicious company of the likes of Texas and corporate lobbying groups publicly fighting the opportunity to get on the international bandwagon to do something about climate change due to global warming as well as harmful air pollution.

The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson of New Orleans, told Congress earlier this week that regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, deemed a danger to the public health, will be phased in starting in 2011 for large plants and 2016 for smaller ones.

King joined Texas, Virginia and the pro-business manufacturing association in filing the petition with the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., asking the court to review EPA’s decision.

In response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of the federal government’s role in regulating air pollutants, the EPA announced in December that the agency would move forward to force states and industries to begin reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gases that threaten public health.

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