COURTS MOVE CLOSER TO RULING IN TWO KEY CLIMATE CHANGE LAWSUITS

Federal courts will hear oral arguments later 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 new legislative mandates. 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...