A U.S. Appeals Court has reinstated a 2004 global warming lawsuit by eight States and the city of New York against five of the largest U.S. utilities. The Court vacated the 2005 judgment of a District Court and remanded it for further proceedings. The States sued American Electric Power Co. Inc., Southern Co., Xcel Energy Inc., Cinergy Corp., and the Tennessee Valley Authority public power system arguing that greenhouse gas emissions from their plants were a public nuisance and would cause irreparable harm to property. The utilities are five of the largest carbon dioxide emitters in the United States. The States in the lawsuit included California, New Jersey, and New York. Read full at CNNMoney.com While this sounds as dangerous as what lawsuits did to drive health care costs out the roof... Suing someone for something that is leagal and they allow is just insane abuse of out judicial system. These lawsuits, Who pays? For What? Why? - You, for nothing.
"With riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent...." Woodrow Wilson
Via David Schaller of Sustainable Practices
