09:00:00 am, by Bill O'Connor 
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In a surprise 5-4 ruling on Monday, the supreme court ruled against the Bush administration's environmental policy, stating that the EPA does have the regulatory powers to curb greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming. For quite some time the EPA has refused to implement any plan that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions of carbon dioxide and other gasses from new vehicles sold in the us, because they claimed that carbon dioxide did not fall under any class of pollutant. The court defeated the EPA stance by declaring that CO2 met the law's description of a pollutant.
The Bush administration's failed stance of of self-regulation has long stood unopposed because of the expert fear mongering that implies federally mandated controls will hurt the economy in the long run. The administration was right, it will hurt the economy - of oil and power companies.
The ruling marks the first high court ruling on Global Warming and opens the door for states to force the EPA to act on regulation and enforcement, to push legislation that will create statewide greenhouse emission caps.
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