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The big car companies being sued by the Attorney General of Califonia for causing global warming, which harms state citizens and damages the infrastructure. Apparently no other states have followed with litigation because the damage is restricted to California. Now that nut case Jerry Brown is the new Attorney General, perhaps the state will reconsider.

GM, Ford, Toyota and others don’t want to wait. They are going into the federal court system to dismiss the suit on the grounds that, if California wants lower car emissions, it should rely on the national government to create and enforce better fuel-efficiency standards.

The suit may appear wacky on the fact of it, but, if the Attorney General in California prevails and federal cours allow the legal action against the car companies to continue, similar charges could be brought in other states.

Sort of reminds one of the tobacco and Vioxx suits. Big legal bills, and, maybe, big liabilities.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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