Editorial | Supreme Court on Global Warming

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2007

Yesterday's climatic shift came not from the Earth, but from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Stop debating  whether  to act on global warming and figure out  how  to do it, justices ruled in  Massachusetts v. EPA .

In perhaps the most important environmental ruling in a decade, the court rejected a "laundry list" of excuses from the Bush administration Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate Earth-warming greenhouse gases as pollutants under the nation's Clean Air Act.

"While the Congress that drafted [the Clean Air Act] might not have appreciated the possibility that burning fossil fuels could lead to global warming, they did understand that without regulatory flexibility, changing circumstances would...