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"The issue was simply whether carbon was an environmental pollutant or not. I did not think it was ever regarded as that. It is not the Atmospheric Protection Agency. It’s the Environmental Protection Agency."

-- Antonin Scalia, 2012, speaking of his dissent in the 2007 decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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In Memoriam

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Feb. 13, 2016 Antonin Scalia, Justice on the Supreme Court, Dies at 79

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/a-look-back-justice-scalia-on-co2-and-why-the-e-p-a-isnt-the-atmospheric-protection-agency/

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