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Climate change: Let the Supreme Court decide

By Jessica Marshall

24 May 2006

AMERICA’s attitude towards global warming may ultimately be decided by its highest court as much as by its politicians. Last week the Supreme Court was urged to hear its first case on climate change. If it accepts, it could be the catalyst that prompts the US to accept the evidence of its own experts that global warming is a threat, and that the nation should do more to prevent it.

Prominent climate change scientists are urging the Supreme Court to hear a case regarding whether the US federal Clean Air Act compels the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse…

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