Supreme Court appears leery of giving states nuisance lawsuit authority for utility emissions

摘要

Justices on the Supreme Court last week questioned whethernfederal courts should be called on to cap power plants’ carbonndioxide emissions under public nuisance law in the absence ofnfederal rules or legislation to do so.nDuring an April 19 oral argument, the justices on both sidesnof the bench suggested that judges may not be the best authoritynon reducing carbon dioxide because they lack adequate complexneconomic and technical expertise on the best approaches for cuttingngreenhouse gases.