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Vermont Governor: EPA Emissions Ruling Misguided

The Environmental Protection Agency has denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from cars. The first to follow California's path was Vermont, and Gov. Jim Douglas says the EPA's ruling is misguided.

He talks with Melissa Block about what the ruling could mean for states that want stricter emission standards than the new federal energy law requires.

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