Utilities, Obama administration urge court to nix CO2 case - Electric Power | Platts News Article & Story

Lawyers representing five large US electric utilities urged the US Supreme Court late Monday to overturn a lower-court ruling that subjects them to lawsuits claiming that their carbon-dioxide emissions are causing health problems, coastal erosion and other alleged impacts of global climate change.
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Significantly, lawyers representing the Obama administration made that same argument in their own brief that they filed with the Supreme Court late Monday.