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This is moved from this thread: Global warming for dummies.

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SCOTUS' decision to mandate that CO2 be treated as a pollutant ...
SCOTUS did no such thing.
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SCOTUS did not "mandate that CO2 be treated as a pollutant." The questions presented arose after the EPA refused to treat greenhouse gases as falling within the statutory purview and SCOTUS determined that the EPA's reasons for doing so were deficient:
In short, EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change. Its action was therefore “arbitrary, capricious, … or otherwise not in accordance with law.” We need not and do not reach the question whether on remand EPA must make an endangerment finding, or whether policy concerns can inform EPA’s actions in the event that it makes such a finding. We hold only that EPA must ground its reasons for action or inaction in the statute.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
In other words, should the EPA devise a more compelling rationale as to why greenhouse gases should not be within the statutory purview, then such a course of action would be "consistent with this opinion."

Either way, there is no "mandate" as you so ridiculously put it. ... This was a case primarily of Article III standing and statutory construction.
Above is pretty much the sum total of my remarks on a U.S. Supreme Court decision called Massachusetts v. EPA.

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Roberts, C.J., dissenting

Scalia, J., dissenting

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your brazen misrepresentations of Mass v EPA
I would like him to prove that claim. It should be a simple matter.
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Uh-oh, if yguy doesn't reply seriously, it will seriously ruin his credibility, which he values so highly.
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Never mind. yguy has already admitted to the pathetic futility of his lies.
As I said, I already have [proven your brazen misrepresentations of Mass v EPA]. I would nevertheless attempt to clarify were it not for your nearly unbroken record of dishonesty. Things being what they are, such a request will have to come from elsewhere for me to spend time on it.
Needless to say, yguy has proven no such thing, not even close.

yguy is a lying weasel, in case anybody was still wondering.

Feel free to bump this thread anytime as a useful reminder.
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Can I add to the lying weasel list?
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Feel free to bump this thread anytime as a useful reminder.
Better yet, if you're not Scarface, challenge me on the pertinent facts.

I double dog dare ya. :)
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Umm...okay.
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Sorry, but shifting the goalposts won't mask your lies.

Everybody can see them now.
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Stop taunting the little guy! He's scared enough already.
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Just out of curiosity yguy, how did DS misrepresent Massachusetts v. EPA? :chin:
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For one thing, ytroll doesn't understand what we call the case's procedural posture. Nor does he appear to comprehend the nature of the questions the Court was petitioned to address. I doubt I'd hold those misunderstandings against anyone else.

The Mat Staver fanboy (whose name escapes me) that used to hang around here, maybe.
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Just out of curiosity yguy, how did DS misrepresent Massachusetts v. EPA? :chin:
"SCOTUS did no such thing."

You'll find my reasoning in the page linked to in the OP. I don't know why an honest inquirer would find it unclear, but any such person is welcome to tell me how I'm wrong about any of it.
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Well one thing this honest inquirer is having trouble figuring out is where the SCOTUS says that CO2 must be treated as a pollutant, can you quote that for me?
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Nice try, but yguy-reasoning (such as it is) is no substitute for that of the Court.

In any event, the question here isn't whether yguy misrepresented the opinion, it's whether I did.

yguy, as a discrete and insular unit of matter, can dribble his uninformed diarrhoea ad infinitum for all I care.
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For one thing, ytroll doesn't understand what we call the case's procedural posture. Nor does he appear to comprehend the nature of the questions the Court was petitioned to address. I doubt I'd hold those misunderstandings against anyone else.

The Mat Staver fanboy (whose name escapes me) that used to hang around here, maybe.
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Well one thing this honest inquirer is having trouble figuring out is where the SCOTUS says that CO2 must be treated as a pollutant, can you quote that for me?
I already have, but I'll do it again:
3. Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Act's capacious definition of "air pollutant," EPA has statutory authority to regulate emission of such gases from new motor vehicles. That definition--which includes "any air pollution agent ... , including any physical, chemical, ... substance ... emitted into ... the ambient air ... ," §7602(g) (emphasis added)--embraces all airborne compounds of whatever stripe. Moreover, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are undoubtedly "physical [and] chemical ... substance[s]."
They go on to overturn the ruling of the DC court which found no such authority.

So I don't see what there is to figure out.
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Outstanding scholarship there, ytroll. That language doesn't even appear in any of the three separate opinions.

May I remind observers that this is the same person accusing me of "brazen misrepresentations" of the caselaw.
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There's a shipload of ellipses in that...

I was wondering was was missing. Other than context, of course.

Now you state that there is no such language in any of the opinions issued by the court?
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No. I assume it's from some case syllabus. We don't rely on syllabi, as a rule.

People who do tend to learn not to the hard way. And that is potentially not a pretty sight.
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Having posted it once already, I shouldn't have to do it again, but I will, so as to take away any excuse to speculate about the source.
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Having posted it once already, I shouldn't have to do it again, but I will, so as to take away any excuse to speculate about the source.
Clearly mistaken.

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The scope of the Court's review of the merits of the statutory issues is narrow. Although an agency's refusal to initiate enforcement proceedings is not ordinarily subject to judicial review, Heckler v. Chaney, 470 U. S. 821, there are key differences between nonenforcement and denials of rulemaking petitions that are, as in the present circumstances, expressly authorized. EPA concluded alternatively in its petition denial that it lacked authority under §7521(a)(1) to regulate new vehicle emissions because carbon dioxide is not an "air pollutant" under §7602, and that, even if it possessed authority, it would decline to exercise it because regulation would conflict with other administration priorities. Because the Act expressly permits review of such an action, §7607(b)(1), this Court "may reverse [it if it finds it to be] arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law," §7607(d)(9). Pp. 24-25.

3. Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Act's capacious definition of "air pollutant," EPA has statutory authority to regulate emission of such gases from new motor vehicles. That definition--which includes "any air pollution agent ... , including any physical, chemical, ... substance ... emitted into ... the ambient air ... ," §7602(g) (emphasis added)--embraces all airborne compounds of whatever stripe. Moreover, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are undoubtedly "physical [and] chemical ... substance[s]." Ibid. EPA's reliance on postenactment congressional actions and deliberations it views as tantamount to a command to refrain from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unavailing. Even if postenactment legislative history could shed light on the meaning of an otherwise-unambiguous statute, EPA identifies nothing suggesting that Congress meant to curtail EPA's power to treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants.
The EPA claimed that 7602 or subsequent legislation precluded their considering CO2 a pollutant. The ruling holds that it is within their power to consider CO2 a pollutant, so if they wish to decline to do so in a non-arbitrary and non-discretion-abusing way, it can't be by citing (such alleged grounds in) 7602 or subsequent legislation.

This simply does not say that CO2 is a pollutant. It says that CO2's being a pollutant is consistent with 7602 (as it could hardly fail to be, given the "capacious" definition).
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Another way of putting it, and also exactly correct. As I said, a question of statutory construction and (if one especially reads the dissents) Article III standing. "Speculate about the source." Is that some kind of a joke? If we don't rely on one syllabus, that means we don't rely on another. A syllabus is not the law. It's only a (hopefully) reasonably accurate guide.

Truth be told, I wouldn't even rely on an online version of an opinion, and that goes for Lexis and Westlaw as well. When the chips are down, you always verify the hard copy case reporters.
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I don't know from Article III standing. I just know how to read English, and that particular bit of English is talking about the EPA's "statutory authority" -- viz., its "power" to treat any "physical, chemical... substance" as a pollutant.
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Right. The Article III standing (the "cases or controversies" requirement in the Constitution whereby the Supreme Court exercises jurisdiction -- which is itself another several shelves of material) is a separate, threshold question. Roberts and the other dissenters don't believe that the Court should have even granted the petition to hear the case in the first place, according to which argument they wouldn't have even reached the merits, i.e., the "capacious" nature of the statutory language.

Moreover, this is a very interesting separation of powers case, since it involves legislation passed by Congress, an enforcement agency of the executive branch, and, of course, the judiciary intervening between the interplay of the former two.
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