Today, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the only environmental case this term, American Electric Power Co. vs. Connecticut. Suffice to say that the Justices sounded downright skeptical of the judicial system's ability to affect climate change. The Obama administration sided with the Midwest polluter defendants, not the (mostly) Northeastern state plaintiffs. Court-watchers expect the decision, to be handed down in June, to bar private nuisance claims.
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