Seattle Times: Washington lined up with California and 14 other states to force the U.S. government out of its unfathomable foot-dragging on improving vehicle-emissions standards. The lawsuit in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeks to overturn the Bush administration’s Dec. 19 rejection of California’s application for a federal waiver so it could implement its own new standards. Washington, Oregon and 13 other states embraced them as well, contingent on California’s waiver, required under the …