Global Warming & Supreme Court Ruling

[Jim]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming.

 

In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars.

 

Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his majority opinion. The court's four conservative justices -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- dissented.

 

 

[AlpineK]

That's good news. It's about time.

[archenemy]

Yeah, time for states to start suing over this. Just watch, it'll happen.

[mattp]

Krugman or somebody had an editorial in the Times over the weekend where they were setting forth a fairly compelling story of how the Bush administration had oil company lobbyists editing scientific reports or policy reports based on science in order to make it sound like the case for global warming was uncertain.

[whirlwind]

shit bout time, the us car industry needs to catch up with the rest of the world, there is no reason for a new car to come on the market and not get 40mpg (in the city)and have low emissions we have the technologies already time to emplement them.

[dt_3pin]

Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his majority opinion. The court's four conservative justices -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- dissented.

 

 

I understand that you pasted that quote from a news-service, but it is quite an overstatement. The court did not hold that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Instead, the Court held that EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Act, and that EPA's decision not to regulate carbon dioxide was arbitrary and capricious because its given reasons were not rooted in the statute itself. EPA must now either promulgate regulations establishing emission limitations for carbon dioxide or give a reasonsed explanation (based on the statute) why it won't establish such regulations.

 

to Justice Stevens

[joblo7]

dont hold your breath ..........

[G-spotter]

Krugman or somebody had an editorial in the Times over the weekend where they were setting forth a fairly compelling story of how the Bush administration had oil company lobbyists editing scientific reports or policy reports based on science in order to make it sound like the case for global warming was uncertain.

 

Scientific American has been reporting that for the past 4 years!

[kevbone]

dont hold your breath ..........

 

No shit.

[joblo7]

Krugman or somebody had an editorial in the Times over the weekend where they were setting forth a fairly compelling story of how the Bush administration had oil company lobbyists editing scientific reports or policy reports based on science in order to make it sound like the case for global warming was uncertain.

 

Scientific American has been reporting that for the past 4 years!

 

daah!

[ZimZam]

Krugman or somebody had an editorial in the Times over the weekend where they were setting forth a fairly compelling story of how the Bush administration had oil company lobbyists editing scientific reports or policy reports based on science in order to make it sound like the case for global warming was uncertain.

 

Scientific American has been reporting that for the past 4 years!

 

One can only imagine the dasturdly manipulations machinating from his mousetrap.

[Toast]

We have an administration supported by idjuts who are still trying to deny the theory of evolution. What do you expect...

[chucK]

When it rains, it pours.

 

Judge says administration acted illegally in supressing scientists in logging legislation

[smiller]

i just started reading this book titled Thin Ice by Mark Bowen

http://www.mark-bowen.com/book.html

super interesting discusses global warming and talks about some of the studies that have gone on and are going on some of the the worlds largest (and quickly shrinking) glaciers

 

anyways... just my 2 cents