Submission + - Supreme Court rules for environmental regulation
gamer4Life writes: News sources everywhere are reporting that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled 5-4 in favor of giving authority to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases coming from automotive vehicles.
From the article:
The Bush administration has consistently rejected capping greenhouse gas emissions, saying such a move would be bad for business.The states and environmental groups who brought the case said the US government had a legal duty, under the Clean Air Act, to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA had argued that the 1970 Act did not give it the powers to impose limits because CO2 was not deemed to be a pollutant.