New York Responds to Carbon Cap-and-Trade Lawsuit - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

As reported in our previous post, Indeck Energy, owner of a natural gas plant in Corinth, N.Y., has filed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon cap-and-trade program established by 10 Northeastern states.

The suit names New York’s governor and several state agencies among the defendants, and challenges New York’s authority to participate in R.G.G.I. without state legislative approval. It also challenges the legitimacy of such a multistate carbon trading program in the absence of approval from the federal Congress.

Global warming catastrophe? « Random Strings

I fear that before we die of global warming (we’ll never die of global warming), the earth ecosystem will be destroyed by geo-engineering attempting to counteract global warming.