Legal Opinion
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 2, 2007No. 05-1120PublishedCited by 1,198 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
A well-documented rise in global temperatures has coincided with a significant increase in the concentration of car*505bon dioxide in the atmosphere. Respected scientists believe the two trends are related. For when carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, it acts like the ceiling of a greenhouse, trapping solar energy and retarding the escape of reflected heat. It is therefore a species — the most important species — of a “greenhouse gas.”
Calling global warming “the most pressing environmental challenge of our time,”1 a group of States,2 local governments,3 and private organizations4…
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