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Article: Court to review EPA's refusal to regulate CO2.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2006
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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review a case that seeks to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles to fight global warming.
The case will be the court's first on the issue of climate change and would determine whether the federal Clean Air Act compels the EPA to regulate a global pollutant such as carbon dioxide. The 29 plaintiffs in the case, which include 12 states, the District, two cities and environmental groups, say it does.
The plaintiffs want the Supreme Court to reverse a July decision of the U.S. Court ...