Supreme Court rejects states' global warming suit
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website, JURIST news archive] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] and the Clean Air Act [text] displace claims made under the federal common law of nuisance regarding whether electric utilities contributed to global warming [JURIST news archive]. The court ruled that at least one plaintiff had standing by an equally divided court as Justice Sonia Sotomayor…