Supreme Court takes up global warming case - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

Dilettante · #1 (**permalink**) 11-29-2006

I'll be interested to see how this works out.

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Supreme Court takes up global warming case

The US Supreme Court took up the charged debate on the dangers posed by global warming today, as several justices questioned a Massachusetts lawyer on whether a lack of federal standards for new auto and truck emissions posed an imminent danger to the Commonwealth and other states.
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The high court was hearing a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts and 11 other states against the Environmental Protection Agency for its 2003 decision not to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles.
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Garre argued that forcing the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would require the agency to venture into an "extraordinarily complex area of science," creating unpredictable results. He said that Massachusetts could not argue that EPA's regulation of emissions would save specific areas of coastlines from rising sea levels caused by global warming.

Much of the close questioning yesterday centered on whether Massachusetts and other states had "standing" to challenge the EPA's decision. The legal definition requires a show of injury and that a court decision could help fix the problem.

Supreme Court takes up global warming case - The Boston Globe

The whole premise seems a little bit odd. The states aren't suing the producers of emissions, they're suing the EPA for not regulating those emissions.

mark777 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-03-2007

meanwhile we still export coal to china for them to burn uncleanly...as we are to scared to burn clean coal generators...

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