Today, in an important victory for those who care about government’s ability to protect the environment, (including Constitutional Accountability Center, which filed a brief in the case) the Supreme Court unanimously rejected an absurd takings claim by a handful of Florida property owners who objected to a beach restoration project on Florida’s Gulf Coast that [...]

The Senate just voted, 47-53, to reject Senator Lisa Murkowski’s resolution to strip the EPA of its authority – under the Clear Air Act and Massachusetts v. EPA – to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve been covering the progress of the resolution at Warming Law, most recently here.
Every Republican voted for the measure, as did [...]

As our readers know, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted back in March to re-hear, en banc, the global warming nuisance case of Comer v. Murphy Oil, which had been dismissed by the District Court but reinstated by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals.    On Friday, however, five judges [...]