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The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth
Long-Form: Chronically catastrophic chemist Thomas Midgley accidentally poisons the world with a neurotoxin, and Clair Patterson tries to stop him. Written by Alan Bellows • Non-Fiction • December 2007 Thomas Midgley At the turn of the twentieth century, as the age of automobiles was afoot, the newfangled gasoline-powered internal combustion engine began to reach the limitations of the fuel that fed it. As -
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Massachusetts v EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007)
Annotation Primary HoldingThe Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouses gases because they qualify as air pollutants. Also, standing requires showing a concrete harm that can be traced to the defendant and remedied by the courts. Read More Syllabus SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2006 MASSACHUSETTS V. EPA SUPREME COURT OF THE