LESLIE CAROTHERS: How green is your presidential candidate?
-- Christian Science Monitor
(Published April 7 2008)
WASHINGTON For environmentalists, it is heartening that the major parties' remaining presidential candidates all offer positive records on environmental issues. But their views on judicial appointments may well
matter more.
Last April, the U.S. Supreme Court told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to get serious about global warming. Weighing a lawsuit brought by a dozen states, the justices demolished the EPA's argument that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases somehow are not "air pollutants" under the Clean Air Act and ordered the agency to decide whether they endanger public health and welfare. Such a finding would then lead to appropriate federal regulation. Full Story |