Fearing prospect of court-set CO2 caps, utilities seek high court view of nuisance case

摘要

American Electric Power and four other big coal-burning utilities want the US Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision they say could allow judges to set caps on CO2 emissions as a way to address complaints against utilities for creating a “public nuisance” by emitting pollutants linked to climate change. ”At stake is the financial health and security of numerous sectors of the economy,” the utilities said in their petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. “The ramifications of this holding, if it is allowed to stand, are staggering.”