States ask Obama to delay EPA rules
WASHINGTON – The campaign to stop President Barack Obama’s sweeping emissions limits on power plants began taking shape Wednesday, as 16 states asked the government to put the rules on hold while a Senate panel moved to block them.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is leading the charge against the rules, banded together with 15 other state attorneys general in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Gina McCarthy requesting that the EPA temporarily suspend the rules while they challenge their legality in court.
Japan remembers Hiroshima bombing
HIROSHIMA, Japan – Japan is marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewed his call for U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear weapons-free world.
More than 40,000 people attended Thursday’s ceremony at Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicenter of the 1945 attack that killed 140,000 people.
Another bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed more than 70,000, causing Japan’s surrender six days later.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that as the sole country to face nuclear attack, Japan has the duty to push for nuclear weapons elimination.
Associated Press
