US DOJ Opposes Suits against Greenhouse Gas Emitters

Has implications, one would think, in the Native Village of Kivalina case….

From SCOTUSBlog:

This week the Acting Solicitor General filed a brief on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, urging the Court to vacate a Second Circuit ruling that would permit lawsuits against greenhouse gas emitters for their contributions to climate change.   The New York Times covered the filing (via Gabriel Nelson of Greenwire), as does the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bob Egelko, the Washington Post’s Steven Mufson, and Stephen Power of the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire.