Supreme Court Decides EPA Should Do Its Job:

For one brief only slightly tarnished moment, the U. S. Supreme Court has finally stopped being the Bush administration's legal mouthpiece. In a 5-4 vote the Justices ruled that the Environmental Protection agency must "revisit its decision that it lacks the power to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming."

Greg Stohr, reporting on the Bloomberg News site reports Justice John Paul Stevens writing for the majority opinion: "EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change." However, Stohr notes that "The ruling doesn't necessarily mean the EPA will have to impose new regulations."

The Bush administration's policy continues to be that the environment is a state's rights issue, because, as we all know, air and water and all of the other elements that make up our environment consistently adhere to the boundaries that constitute our individual states.