Supreme Court agrees to hear greenhouse gas case
Source: Los Angeles Times
By David G. Savage and Neela Banerjee
October 15, 2013, 9:34 a.m.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a utility industry challenge to the Obama administration’s environmental regulations that would limit greenhouse gases coming from power plants and factories.
The justices agreed to rule on whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s restrictions involving motor vehicles give the agency the power to impose similar restrictions on “stationary sources that emit greenhouse gases,” which would include everything from power plants and refineries to apartment buildings and factories. The court, however, turned away the most aggressive challenges to the EPA’s authority to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
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Business groups and several Republican-led states joined in challenging the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases beyond cars and trucks.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the EPA was imposing “the costliest, farthest reaching and most intrusive regulatory apparatus in the history of the American administrative state.”
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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-supreme-court-greenhouse-gas-case-20131015,0,839943.story
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