2007Nov15: From the NY Times, A federal appeals court in California rejects the Bush administration’s year-old fuel-economy standards for light trucks and sport utility vehicles because regulators did not properly assess the economic impact of tailpipe emissions that contribute to climate change. “What this says to me is that the courts are catching up with climate change and the law is catching up with climate change…Climate change has ushered in a whole new era of judicial review,” said Patrick A. Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School (NY Times, 2007).
Reference: New York Times. 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/business/16fuel.html
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