Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/20/2011 11:30:47 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that it would throw out a global warming lawsuit brought by California and five other states that seek limits on carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants in the South and Midwest.
Encouraged by the solicitor general, the justices said regulating greenhouse gases should be left to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The issue debated before the high court Tuesday was not whether greenhouse gases are causing global climate change, but who should regulate them. The decision involves politics, economics and science, the lawyers said.
"It's a question of tradeoffs," said Peter Keisler, representing the power producers. "There is no legal principle here to guide the decision" if it were made by a judge.
Keisler was joined by acting Solicitor Gen. Neal Katyal in urging the justices to throw out the lawsuit against the power plants as too sprawling.
"In the 222 years that this court has been sitting, it has never heard a case with so many potential perpetrators and so many potential victims," Katyal began. Everyone on the planet emits carbon dioxide, and everyone is a potential victim of global warming. Judges and courts are not suited to handling global problems through a lawsuit, he said.
In their comments and questions, it became clear that the justices — liberals and conservatives alike — were dubious of allowing a single judge to decide on the regulation of greenhouse gases.
This "just sounds to me like what the EPA does," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a New York state lawyer who was defending the lawsuit. A judge cannot be "a super EPA" who sets and enforces detailed regulations, she said.
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“...regulating greenhouse gases should be left to the Environmental Protection Agency...”
Ya, and DEFINING “greenhouse gases” should be left to real science!
NOT agenda driven crapola!
Bull.
Ping.
I know this may be asking the impossible, but how about just good common sense as a guied?
I’m surprised Ginsberg can still spell EPA.
We need to sit in the dark for a while with an armed NG force on the street to reconsider our priorities in some places.
Think of the savings after a hundred million or such oldsters die off trying to run their ventilators or recharge their batteries on their electric wheelchairs.
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