It seems fitting that this image is located in the nations capital of Washington DC. Led by Massachusetts and California, a dozen states went before the U.S. Supreme Court this week to argue that they face an imminent environmental threat unless the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) regulates tailpipe emissions. Attorney James Milkey likened the harm from such emissions to "lighting a fuse on a bomb." As usual, our politicians are desperately slow to act to a growing serious global problem.