high court will review EPA global warming rules

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in developing rules aimed at cutting emissions of six heat-trapping gases from factories and power plants.

The justices said Tuesday they will review a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming.

The question in the case is whether the EPA's authority to regulate automobile emissions of greenhouses gases as air pollutants, which stemmed from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, also applies to power plants and factories.

The case will be argued in early 2014.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. The planet's epitaph will be written in a Supreme Court decision.

When human life become extinct, the last humans will be able to point to the five people responsible:

Roberts
Alito
Thomas
Scalia
Kennedy

Glad we got that formality dealt with.