The President’s Clean Power Plan is on a steady path to the Supreme Court. By June of 2017, the constitutionality of the Plan will be determined. The court making that determination may have only eight members, or it might have a new ninth member who will have a big impact on the final ruling. We discuss the climate implications of who that ninth justice might be, and how it all might play out. (Emphasis on the word might.) Listen in!
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The reading list.
- Our recent podcast "Right wing Supremes play politics with the planet"
- Our recent podcast "Is God a Climate Hawk?"
- NTY on the SCOTUS pick and the CPP
- Justice Srinavasan?
- Justice Loretta Lynch?
- Plummer on the value of the CPP
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…Ted McIntyre