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Obama climate change agenda faces first Supreme Court test
2014-02-24 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court considers on Monday whether President Barack Obama's administration overstepped its authority by imposing new regulations to reduce pollution in response to climate change. In a 90-minute oral argument, extended from 60 minutes because many parties are involved, the justices will examine a relatively narrow challenge by industry groups and Republican-leaning states to one aspect of a suite of regulations issued by Obama's Democratic administration in 2009 and 2010. The...
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Climate case at Supreme Court looks at EPA's power
2014-02-24 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Obama administration is squaring off at the Supreme Court with industry groups and Republican-led states over a small but important program aimed at limiting power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in a challenge to a regulation that forces companies that want to expand industrial facilities or build new ones that would increase overall pollution to evaluate ways to reduce the carbon they release. Carbon dioxide is the...
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High court climate case looks at EPA's power
2014-02-23 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Industry groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. As President Obama pledges to act on environmental and other matters when Congress doesn't, or won't, opponents of regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cast the rule as a power grab of historic proportions. The court is hearing arguments Monday about a small...
Supreme Court takes up challenge to Obama and the EPA
2014-02-23 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: At issue in Mondays oral argument is whether the Environmental Protection Agency usurped legislative power reserved to Congress when EPA officials wrote broad new rules regulating the emission of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Last month, the high court heard argument in a case testing whether President Obama acted properly when he ignored pro forma sessions of the Senate, declared Congress to be in recess, and then used his recess appointment power to unilaterally appoint three members...
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Supreme Court to consider EPAs authority to regulate greenhouse gases
2014-02-23 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Supreme Court's first big battle over climate change was initiated by states and environmentalists charging that the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush had abdicated its duty to regulate greenhouse gases. The sequel is the opposite: Different states and industrialists are charging that the EPA under President Obama has run amok with the power that the court gave it in that first case in 2007. A roundup of political observers in all 50 states either reveling or...
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