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April 6th 2007 • Printer version  Supreme Court reasserts EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases caused by
motor vehicles
University of Oregon law faculty experts will
discuss the April 2 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that reasserts
the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to
regulate greenhouse gases produced by motor vehicles.
The free public forum will be held on
Monday, April 9 in Room 110, Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St. on the
UO campus in Eugene.
The decision does not require the government to regulate
greenhouse gases, but it instructs the EPA to reconsider its refusal to
regulate emissions and encourages the agency to heed scientific
evidence.
If the agency chooses not to regulate motor vehicle emissions,
the ruling requires that the EPA provide more sufficient justification
than what the court calls its current "laundry list" of reasons.
PANELISTS
John Bonine was formerly an associate general counsel for air quality for the EPA.
Hari Osofsky is an expert on climate change litigation. She Mary C. Wood is an expert on the
politicization of agency regulation in this area and
the viability of judicial review. She is exploring common law claims brought by
states and tribes against the federal government for its failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
INFO: (541) 346-3845
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