A dispute over whether states can sue big industrial global warming polluters has reached the Supreme Court. The justices seem reluctant to agree that federal courts can order companies to cut emissions when the EPA is already regulating them. But Living on Earth’s Washington correspondent Mitra Taj reports the justices might not want federal courts to be totally barred from climate change claims in the future.
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