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"Congress Emits Half-Truths In Spin War Over Mass. v. EPA"

"In the continuing political battle over the Obama administration's efforts to regulate greenhouse gases, Democrats and Republicans rarely take aim at the most deserving target: the Supreme Court.

As Democrats are fond of noting, it wasn't the Obama administration but the Supreme Court that decided in its 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA ruling that greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

The court told U.S. EPA to conduct the analysis that led to the so-called endangerment finding -- in which EPA concluded that greenhouse gases were harmful -- that triggered rules that Republicans in particular are now railing against."

Lawrence Hurley and Elana Schor report for Greenwire March 17, 2011.

Source: Greenwire, 03/18/2011