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Top court mostly upholds Obama bid to curb carbon emissions
2014-06-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday largely upheld the Obama administration's authority to curb greenhouse gases from major emitters like power plants and refineries in a ruling that nonetheless exempted some smaller sources from the regulation. On a 7-2 vote, the court rejected an industry-backed argument that most emitting facilities should not be regulated for greenhouse gases under one particular air pollution program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But industry could claim...
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