Milloy on Global Warming Lawsuits

Milloy on Global Warming Lawsuits

FOXNews.com - Views - Junk Science - Global Warming Litigation Heating Up

No one knows for sure whether the Earth’s climate is changing appreciably or whether any such change is due to humans. One thing that certainly is heating up, though, is the global warming litigation environment.

Just-terminated California Gov. Gray Davis announced last weekend that the state will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over global warming. Nine other states and several eco-activist groups, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, are expected to join the lawsuit.

The basis of the suit is the EPA’s recent refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The EPA says it lacks the legal authority for such regulation because Congress has not declared that carbon dioxide -- the greenhouse gas at the center of the global warming controversy -- is a pollutant or that it can be regulated for climate change purposes.