Supreme Court: Only EPA Can Regulate ‘Greenhouse Gas’ Emissions

In a near unanimous ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the power to regulate so-called greenhouse gas emissions rests solely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The court ruled 8-0 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut that the federal Clean Air Act gives the EPA the lone authority to regulate the emission of so-called greenhouse gasses that, some suggest, lead to global warming. Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not participate because she had been part of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, whose ruling was being appealed.

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