[SustainableTompkins] Daily Grist: Supreme Court is all ears on climate-change case, and more

Thu Nov 30 11:39:19 PST 2006

 [image: Daily Grist]   *Thursday, 30 Nov 2006*
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*Letting the Cataclysm Out of the Bag*
*Supreme Court hears opening arguments in landmark climate-change case*

 Climate change made its Supreme debut yesterday, as the high court began
considering whether the U.S. EPA must regulate greenhouse gases under the
Clean Air Act. Much of the opening session concerned whether the plaintiffs,
including several green groups and a dozen states, had suffered enough harm
to sue. Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General James Milkey said
coastlines were in grave danger and emissions rules would help; Deputy U.S.
Solicitor General Gregory Garre countered that such rules would do economic
harm and were unadvisable "in light of the substantial scientific
uncertainty surrounding climate change." (Really? They're sticking with
that?) The Supremes split along predictable ideological lines, with
conservative Justice Antonin Scalia asking early on, "When is the predicted
cataclysm?" Across town, under pressure from Democrats, EPA agreed to revise
a controversial proposed rule for companies reporting toxic releases. So
hey, maybe these kids can settle this thing yet.

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 *see also, in Gristmill:* A report from inside the
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