Net Joins State Attorneys General in Asking Supreme Court to Review Epa Decision to Ignore Global Warming
U.S. Newswire › March 03, 2006
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WASHINGTON, March 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today the National Environmental Trust joined with Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly and 11 other states, three major metropolitan cities, one island government and several environmental groups in a historic Supreme Court challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to acknowledge greenhouse gases as air pollution.
The coalition is asking the court to review a decision issued last year by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. EPA. That ruling affirmed the EPA's refusal to regulate global warming pollution from motor vehicles. The Appeals Court decision effectively ruled that declaring greenhouse gases as "pollution" would be too political.See the full content of this document
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Net Joins State Attorneys General in Asking Supreme Court to Review Epa Decision to Ignore Global Warming
"The lower court's blatant punting on global warming is a travesty. Despite the plain and simple language of the law the lowe...
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