States suing over CO2 emissions

New York Times:

Eight states and New York City sued five large utilities today that are the country's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas that scientists have linked to global warming. The effort is the first by local governments to try to force companies outside their jurisdictions to curb gas discharges blamed for rising global temperatures and sea levels. Officials involved in the suit said they had acted to force cuts in the gases because the federal government has not.

I try to keep an open mind about global warming while being extremely leery of any 'solution' that would have huge economic costs. This is definitely the wrong was to go about solving this issue however. Hopefully this lawsuit will completely fail.