Monday, April 02, 2007

CO2=Pollution

It's official. That bastion of liberal ideology, the U.S. Supreme Court, has ruled that carbon dioxide can be regulated as an air pollutant, clearing the way for the U.S. EPA to take up the regulatory cause. In fact, the old agency even received a bit of a rebuke:

""EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority. The agency "identifies nothing suggesting that Congress meant to curtail EPA's power to treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants," the opinion continued.""

I guess it's back to the drawing board for the climate policy obstructionists in the U.S. Wonder what gem of policy logic they'll come up with next.

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