Apr 3, 2007

New Supreme Court decision: EPA finally allowed to set restrictions on GHG emissions in USA, and GHGs are thus classified as pollution in USA!

In February, I referred to the Citigroup report about the effects of climate change on business:

"If corporations do anyway not care about what consumers think, then they might care of the actions of litigants. There are at least two very interesting trials coming up in the U.S. this year: First, the supreme Court is set to rule on the federal regulation of GHG emissions (the question is whether GHGs are pollution, and whether Environmental Protection Agency EPA should have the mandate to regulate them). "

The Supreme Court has now made its decision, and with votes 5-4 EPA enjoys now the mandate to regulate GHG in USA.

It was president Bush who earlier forced through the law that GHGs are not pollution, and thus EPA should not have the mandate to regulate them... !!!

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