9/30/10, "Mr. Mass v. EPA: An Interview with the Man Who Put Climate Change on America’s Legal Map," yaleclimatemediaforum.org, James Wihbey
"And tucked away on the third floor of the John Adams Courthouse on
Beacon Hill in Massachusetts, the man who set in motion this chain of
events will be observing,' from the sidelines.
As the one-time top environmental lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, (James) Milkey
formulated and first pushed the idea of suing EPA to contest its
decision that it could not regulate greenhouse gases. With a team of
some 50 other attorneys representing other states and environmental
groups backing him, he argued and won the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case before the Supreme Court.
That 5-4 ruling in 2007 opened the door for EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding and its imminent regulation of carbon dioxide-emitting industries.
Now a sitting Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court,
Milkey still takes a keen interest in how the climate debate is playing
out. The 53-year-old justice sat at his desk in his courthouse office
for a recent interview, holding forth on everything from Clean Air Act
legal intricacies to climate change media coverage and public opinion
shifts. A large artist’s sketch of the Supreme Court oral arguments in
the Mass v. EPA case loomed behind him on the wall."...
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The "Massachusetts v EPA," Supreme Court decision written by Justice Stevens cites the UN and UN IPCC as an authority on the idea that human CO2 and world temperatures rise together, and that the former causes the latter. Of interest, the April
2007 US Supreme Court 5-4 decision specifically only authorizes the EPA to regulate emissions from new motor vehicles and engines. Nothing was said about coal plants, power stations, industry, or anything else.
4/2/2007, "SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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