EPA on hot seat after ruling; Thin Supreme Court majority tags greenhouse gases from cars as pollutants.

Waste News, April, 2007

Byline: Elizabeth McGowan Understandably, a certain series of events after the 2000 election caused Al Gore to shudder when anybody mentioned the U.S. Supreme Court in his presence. But word on the street is that the former vice president has been all smiles since April 2 when a majority of the justices rebuked the Bush administration's policy on global warming in Massachusetts v.

EPA. The 5-4 ruling, highlighting Justice Anthony Kennedy as the crucial swing vote, labels heat-trapping gases as pollutants and says the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection ...