American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut

[JBeukema]

At issue is American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, a case filed by environmental groups and eight states against midwestern utility companies. Connecticut, New York, California, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin claimed the power companies’ contributions to climate change made them a public nuisance, and asked courts to cap their emissions.
The case was filed before the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate greenhouse gases was established, and represents an attempt by citizens to control greenhouse gases in the absence of federal mandates. As described in a previous Climate Desk story on American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, the case is grounded in a century-long tradition of communities holding big polluters responsible for damaging public health.
Further lawsuits have been inspired by the case, including one by Gulf Coast residents against oil refineries they say contributed to Hurricane Katrina, and another by residents of an Alaskan island village about to be swamped by rising seas.
A New York court ruled against the states in 2005, saying the suit raised a “political question” beyond judicial scope. An appeals court reversed that decision last year, noting that the link between greenhouse gas pollution and climate change is not a political question. As justification, they even cited Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., an obscure Supreme Court decision in which the high court supported Georgia’s right to sue two copper companies responsible for crop-destroying pollution.

Supreme Court Takes Climate Pollution Case | Wired Science | Wired.com

 

[editec]

It's about time.

We had the laws in place to take old coal-fired electricity generation technology off line, but we pissed that opportunity away by allowing the energy companies to keep the old equipment online long past its prime.

It's time to clean up that mess.

EVEN if it costs us more money for electicity.

 

[mdn2000]

Yes it is about time, the sooner we can completely shut down industry and shift all the polluters to China the quicker we completely destroy the country.

We should then prepare ourselves to be sued in the world court for polluting the world.

I can post articles showing third world countries are already demanding this.

The only people happy about this are Anarchist, Marxist, Liberals, and the anti-USA Judas.

 

[Old Rocks]

Ah yes, mdn is truly the mental level the deniers desire to achieve.

 

[mdn2000]

Ah yes, mdn is truly the mental level the deniers desire to achieve.

And what is your experience, destroying the environment, my experience is saving the environment.

Old Crock cut down trees to make a profit, MDN2000 is currently working as a Electric Power Institute Analyst in Madrid Spain as a sub-contractor for Tecnatom.