Courts Move Closer To Ruling On Key Climate Change Lawsuits

Federal courts will hear oral arguments this month in two key lawsuits on regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which could have major implications for the federal government's responsibility to oversee global climate change in the absence of a statutory mandate. Parties will outline their arguments April 8 to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al v...