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Supreme Court Chastises Bush Administration For "Arbitrary, Capricious" Handling of Climate Change
Even the Supreme Court justices appointed by Bush I and Bush II (Thomas, Roberts, and Alito) couldn't stop the Court from repudiating the current Administration's head-in-thesand approach for dealing with climate change. Today's 5-4 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, called the administration's approach "arbitrary, capricious ... or otherwise not in accordance with law" and found that the EPA does in fact have the authority to regulate greenhouse-causing gases under the Clean Air Act.
The majority opinion contends that the "EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change." While the decision does not necessarily compel the EPA to regulate carbon emissions (and don't hold your breath), the ruling is significant since it frees the hand of the next President to regulate carbon and methane emissions without Congress passing additional legislation.
What the decision also does is clear the way for states to reduce greenhouse emissions with initiatives of their own. In the past, states like California that have asked the EPA for special permission to apply more stringent carbon emission limits on automobiles have been stymied by the Administration's claim that the Clean Air Act does not provide the authority to do so.
Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell









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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Junior Bushwacker is appearing even more like an irrational, overly combative juvenile deliquent these days? Perhaps he's been out a little too long in the global warming sun.
Yes but. The catholic republicans came damn close. Should one more of their ilk be put on the SCOTUS Bush$! and SHRUB$# will have completely succeeded in corrupting the SCOTUS.
Actually, the SCOTUS became corrupt when they gave the 2000 election to GWB, the lesser.
The SCOTUS is bordering on total corruption. Scalia advocated the end of the rule of law and the end of democracy in America. He is a staunch catholic and speaks for the catholic church, my church but not me. His words embody the popes, both current and prior abd their agenda for america. Just as before, during and after WWII the popes then just as the two popes now have done the criminal and unforgivable, they have merged church with the slime of politics.
Richard A,
I agree with you and see the same. Baby shrub is getting more strident and shrieking in his words, all of which now seem to be a continuous rant, tirade, diatribe which he keeps repeating. Quite possibly he is in nu-ku-ler meltdown.
One can only hope. I'm not sure america can survive another 21months oof this juvenile's tantrums.