Global Warming Claims Against AEP, Utilities to Get U.S. High Court Review

Global Warming Goes to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will take on another landmark Global Warming Lawsuit, the High Court announced today. The court will hear an appeal next year from electric utilities in the high-profile American Electric Power v. Connecticut case. Power companies are challenging a lower court ruling that allowed states and environmental groups to move ahead with a public nuisance lawsuit seeking to force the utilities to slash their greenhouse Gas Emissions. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is fo...

High court will review climate change lawsuit
Stumble This! In a new case about Climate Change, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from electric utilities that are trying to short-circuit an effort by states to force cuts in Power Plant emissions. The court agreed Monday to consider ending a federal Lawsuit by eight states, New York City and others that accuse the power companies of being among the largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide in the world. The suit asks a Federal Judge to order reductions in the emissions in plants in 20 states. ...

High court will review climate change lawsuit
(12-06) 07:33 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a new case about Climate Change, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from electric utilities that are trying to short-circuit an effort by states to force cuts in Power Plant emissions. The court agreed Monday to consider ending a federal Lawsuit by eight states, New York City and others that accuse the power companies of being among the largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide in the world. The suit asks a Federal Judge to order reductions in the emissions ...

High Court Will Review Climate Change Lawsuit
Monday, December 06, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Washington (AP) - In a new case about Climate Change, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from electric utilities that are trying to short-circuit an effort by states to force cuts in Power Plant emissions. The court agreed Monday to consider ending a federal Lawsuit by eight states, New York City and others that accuse the power companies of being among the largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide in the world. The suit asks a Federal Judge ...

High court to hear climate case
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an industry-backed appeal of a key lower court ruling that said states can force Power Plants to reduce their greenhouse Gas Emissions. Bloomberg has the details: “The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear an appeal by four power companies including American Electric Power, Co., agreeing to decide whether they must face a suit by states seeking a reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions.” “The eight states, including New York and California, say plants

After Surgery, Anesthetic Gases Add To Global Warming
What is this? The soothing gases delivered by anesthesiologists to get patients through a rough procedure or surgery have done wonders for pain management. Most gases used in anesthesiology eventually end up in the atmosphere where they trap heat even more effectively than Carbon Dioxide. But now scientists have found that these tools aren't so friendly to the environment. That's because three gases used commonly by anesthesiologists are maddeningly effective at trapping heat and warming the pla...

Global experts: Warming could double food prices
Cancun, Mexico – Even if we stopped spewing Global Warming gases today, the world would face a steady rise in food prices this century. But on our current emissions path, Climate Change becomes the "threat multiplier" that could double grain prices by 2050 and leave millions more Children malnourished, global food experts reported Wednesday. Beyond 2050, when climate scientists project temperatures might rise to as much as 6.4 degrees C (11.5 degrees F) over 20th century levels, the plan...

The Supreme Court tales a global warming case....
... with Justice Sonia Sotomayor recusing herself. American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut involves the use of a common law theory of nuisance: [Five companies] that were claimed to be the largest sources of Greenhouse Gases — four electric power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority — were sued by eight states, New York City, and three land conservation groups... Calling the potential impact of the nuisance theory “staggering,” the companies’ petition s...

High court will review climate change lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a new case about Climate Change, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from electric utilities that are trying to short-circuit an effort by states to force cuts in Power Plant emissions. The court agreed Monday to consider ending a federal Lawsuit by eight states, New York City and others that accuse the power companies of being among the largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide in the world. The suit asks a Federal Judge to order reductions in the emissions in plants in 20 stat...

High court will review climate change lawsuit
In a new case about Climate Change, the Supreme Court will hear an appeal from electric utilities that are trying to short-circuit an effort by states to force cuts in Power Plant emissions. The court agreed Monday to consider ending a federal Lawsuit by eight states, New York City and others that accuse the power companies of being among the largest emitters of Carbon Dioxide in the world. The suit asks a Federal Judge to order reductions in the emissions in plants in 20 states. A federal judge...

Cert grant in American Electric Power v. Connecticut
Cert grant in American Electric Power v. Connecticut Good news that the Supreme Court has granted certiorari over the wrong-headed Second Circuit global-warming nuisance decision, but Jonathan Adler expects a narrow decision. ...

Global Warming Stopped...15 Years Ago
How inconvenient: A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an everrising trend: 'Our experimental decadal forecast confirms previous indications that about half the years ...

Cartoon of the Day: Massive Partying to Cut Global Warming!
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Global warming? Cool!, climatologist says
Global warming isn't such a bad thing, a leading Russian climatologist told a conference last week. The effects of rising temperatures will save on heating, increase farm production and open northern sea channels, said Vladimir Klimenko of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, according to a Moscow Times article. On the downside, several Siberian and Far Eastern Russian cities will have to be rebuilt, Klimenko conceded in his report to Russian and German scholars at a conference sponsored...

Details on this mornings orders
Briefs and issues in the two cases granted by the Court. This morning, the Court issued orders from the Justices’ December 3 Conference, granting certiorari in two cases. Today’s full order list is here. Title: American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut (Granted ) Issue(s): (1) Whether states and private parties may seek emissions caps on utilities for their alleged contribution to global Climate Change; (2) whether a cause of action to cap Carbon Dioxide emissions can be impli...

Details on this morning’s orders
Briefs and issues in the two cases granted by the Court. This morning, the Court issued orders from the Justices’ December 3 Conference, granting certiorari in two cases. Today’s full order list is here. Title: American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut (Granted ) Issue(s): (1) Whether states and private parties may seek emissions caps on utilities for their alleged contribution to global Climate Change; (2) whether a cause of action to cap Carbon Dioxide emissions can be impli...

Video: How to explain Milankovitch cycles to an anti-science Congressman in 30 seconds
This is an excerpt from Skeptical Science by John Cook about the inimitable Professor Richard Alley, who was grilled last month by Dana “Dinosaur flatulence” Rohrabacher (R-CA).  Alley was asked to explain in 15 seconds why climate has changed in the past and how we know humans are causing it now when they didn’t back then. I’ve long been a fan of Richard Alley. Not just because of his rendition of Geoman, possibly the nerdiest song in the history of science [reposted below].

High Court to Hear Global Warming, Discrimination Cases
By Ashby Jones It was a big Monday morning down at the U.S. Supreme Court. The big news came not in the form of opinions, but in announcements that the court plans to hear two high-profile cases, cases that are likely to be among the most high-profile of the term. For starters, the court will take a closer look at this idea that industry can and should be held liable for adding to the global-warming crisis. Click here for the early AP story. The case consists of an appeal from electric utilitie...

Gun-Rights Supporters Won Big at the High Court, But For What?
By Ashby Jones In the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has given gun-control opponents much to cheer about. In 2008, the court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to possess a firearm for private use inside one’s home.Two years later, the court essentially extended that ruling to the states. But according to this recent story in the ABA Journal, the Heller and McDonald decisions have not spelled doom for cities’ and states’ gun-control efforts. ...

High Court to Hear Class-Action Case against Wal-Mart
The Supreme Court announced today that it will consider whether the largest Class Action worker Discrimination case "in the nation's history," may go forward The New York Times reports. As The Times' Adam Liptak notes, the justices will not determine whether Wal-Mart has discriminated against scores of its women workers, but whether the employees "may be combined as a class action. The court's decision on that issue will almost certainly affect all sorts of class-action suit...

High court turns down federal death row inmate
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a federal death row Prisoner who wants the courts to consider evidence that one Federal Judge said "is virtually guaranteed" to show the inmate is mentally retarded and thus barred from being executed. The court did not comment today in rejecting an appeal from Bruce Carneil Webster. He was sentenced to death more than 14 years ago and has since tried in vain to persuade federal judges that he is mentally retarded. Evidence rec...

High court turns down federal death row inmate
The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a federal death row Prisoner who wants the courts to consider evidence that one Federal Judge said "is virtually guaranteed" to show the inmate is mentally retarded and thus barred from being executed. The court did not comment Monday in rejecting an appeal from Bruce Carneil Webster. He was sentenced to death more than 14 years ago and has since tried in vain to persuade federal judges that he is mentally retarded. Evidence recently provided by t...

High Court To Hear Wal-Mart Discrimination Case
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether to keep alive the largest employment Discrimination Lawsuit in U.S. history, a case that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently. The justices stepped into a dispute that could involve billions of dollars in back pay for 500,000 to 1.5 million women who work or once worked at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest Private Employer. But the case also could affect other class-action lawsuits, in which peo...

Branstad: Restraint is vital on high court
Only Candidates who respect Iowa voters' rejection of last year's same-sex marriage ruling should be considered for the Iowa Supreme Court, the state's Governor-elect said Monday. Republican Terry Branstad also repeated his long-held position that the people of Iowa should have a chance to vote on a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. He accused Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, of acting like a dictator by pledging to block a public vote.

High court turns down federal death row inmate
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a federal death row Prisoner who wants the courts to consider evidence that one Federal Judge said "is virtually guaranteed" to show the inmate is mentally retarded and thus barred from being executed. The court did not comment Monday in rejecting an appeal from Bruce Carneil Webster. He was sentenced to death more than 14 years ago and has since tried in vain to persuade federal judges that he is mentally retarded. Evidence rece...