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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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US Supreme Court to weigh emissions rule
2014-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The US Supreme Court will weigh efforts Monday by President Barack Obama's administration to regulate greenhouse gases, which industry groups and Republican-led states are labeling gross overreach. Experts say even if the court sides with businesses, it would barely dent the administration's efforts to tackle global warming. But businesses worry they could face huge additional costs if the Environmental Protection Agency wins, as it could then order industrial sites to be designed and operated...
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Supreme Court to look at EPA's carbon rules
2014-02-23 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: 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 Barack 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...
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Supreme Court to weigh EPA move to regulate greenhouse gases
2014-02-21 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The Obama administration's drive to regulate greenhouse gases could hit a snag at the Supreme Court next week as industry groups and Republican-led states ask justices to block what they call a "brazen power grab" by the president's environmental regulators. Amid legislative inaction in a deadlocked Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency adopted regulations in 2011 that require new power plants, factories and other such stationary facilities to limit carbon emissions. The agency said...
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