Following the Wednesday decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to deny California and other 16 states the right to impose their own standards and regulations for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to take drastic measures to overturn it.

Schwarzenegger said on Thursday he was prepared to sue EPA, adding that the agency stood against “the will of millions of people in California and other 16 states who want us to take tough action against global warming” and that this “is another example of the administration’s failure to treat global warming with the seriousness that it actually demands.”

This situation puts California’s Governor and George W. Bush face to face. The two of them have had a good collaboration until now, but this might cause strong discussions between them. Bush said in a recent statement that the question whether to adopt a national strategy or to embrace the decision of each state on cutting down greenhouse emissions still remained. Following Johnson’s declarations, the President supported and defended his decision.

At the same time, the EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said that the Bush administration wanted to avoid a “confusing patchwork of state rules” and that “President Bush and Congress have set the bar high and, when fully implemented, our federal fuel economy standard will achieve significant benefits by applying to all 50 states.”

The regulations California is trying to impose would cut gas emissions from automobiles by 30 percent by 2016. 16 other states have embraced the idea, but the automakers are constantly complaining that the new standards would cost them too much.

In the meantime, Schwarzenegger is most upset on the situation and called the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Destruction Agency in a Time.com interview. "He's got a pretty strong personality; the governor has, and wants to get things done. If the federal government is one of those obstacles, then he'll run that tank he has over it. It's not particularly anything personal, I think,” said former Schwarzenegger adviser Joel Fox according to CNNPolitics.com.