Donald Kochan: The Supreme Court should grant certiorari in climate-change cases

Donald Kochan : Supreme Court should grant certiorari to take climate change cases.

Honolulu , Hawaii , is seeking damages from industry for emissions all over the world.

Honolulu effectively setting itself up as an international energy regulator, he says.

Kochan says the Constitution and the Clean Air Act do not allow states to interfere with federal prerogatives.

The Court ’s reasoning in AEP should make these pending cases quick and easy to dispose of, if the justices decide to take them. Donald J. Kochan is a professor of law and executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School . Original article link.