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  • Supreme Court indicates it will dismiss major climate-change case

    04/19/2011 12:31:08 PM PDT · by library user · 126 replies
    The Hill ^ | April 19, 2011 | by Andrew Restuccia
    Key U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled Tuesday they are inclined to give deference to the Environmental Protection Agency rather than the courts on the issue of major power companies' greenhouse-gas emissions. The justices' comments indicate a major climate-change case, American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, will be dismissed by the high court. "Congress set up the EPA to promulgate standards for emissions, and the relief you're seeking seems to me to set up a district judge, who does not have the resources, the expertise, as a kind of super EPA," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday. The Supreme Court heard...