Global Warming Case Taken Up By Supreme Court Statement of Norman Dean, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth welcomes the Supreme Court's decision to review a 2003 EPA ruling that denied the agency's authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The organization argues that the lack of regulation has coincided with a 16 percent increase in global warming emissions since 1990 and contributed to severe weather events and economic losses, such as the $57.6 billion in insurance losses from 2005 hurricanes.

• The Supreme Court agreed to decide if the Bush Administration is required to regulate carbon dioxide to combat global warming, following a 2003 EPA ruling that claimed carbon dioxide did not meet the Clean Air Act's definition of a "pollutant."
• Global warming emissions have risen by 16 percent since 1990, and the author asserts that the government's "wait and see" approach is ineffective.
• The document links global warming to increased severity of storms, floods, droughts, and the spread of tropical diseases like West Nile Virus, noting that 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma caused $57.6 billion in insurance losses.

APA

Dean, N. (2008). Global Warming Case Taken Up By Supreme Court Statement of Norman Dean, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth. Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/news/2008-10-global-warming-case-taken-up-by-supreme-court-statem/

Chicago

Dean, Norman. Global Warming Case Taken Up By Supreme Court Statement of Norman Dean, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth. Friends of the Earth, 2008. https://foe.org/news/2008-10-global-warming-case-taken-up-by-supreme-court-statem/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{dean2008global, author = {Dean, Norman}, title = {{Global Warming Case Taken Up By Supreme Court Statement of Norman Dean, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2008}, month = oct, url = {https://foe.org/news/2008-10-global-warming-case-taken-up-by-supreme-court-statem/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }