Kansas City Business Journall
Attorneys general in Kansas and Missouri want the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to the use of public nuisance lawsuits that target electric utilities thought to contribute to global warming.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Missouri counterpart Chris Koster joined 20 other attorneys general in filing a "friend of the court" brief to the U.S. Supreme Court imploring it render greenhouse regulation a political question rather than one solved by litigation.
The brief is sent to the court in an attempt to convince justices, but it has no binding effect. The brief said lawsuits seeking past damages for greenhouse gas emissions and injunctions against future emissions undercut state regulatory guidelines crafted by elected officials.
"Federal courts should not use the common law to confound the political branches' legislative and administrative processes by establishing emissions policy -- more likely, multiple conflicting policies -- on a piecemeal, ad hoc, case-by-case basis under the aegis of federal common law," the filing reads.
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