After the Supreme Court's landmark 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, many environmentalists quickly dubbed the Court's ruling the equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education. What the Court did in Brown for civil rights in 1954, by outlawing segregation in public education, the Court had now accomplished for future generations, by making clear the seriousness and legitimacy of the climate change issue. And, in both cases, the High Court rejected arguments that the judiciary should stay its hand because of the potentially enormous social and economic repercussions of such a ruling.
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