Another sign that everything is politics:

Frustrated by Bush administration inaction on global warming, states and environmentalists urged the Supreme Court Wednesday to declare greenhouse gases to be air pollutants that the U.S. government must regulate.

The court’s first case on the politically charged topic showed an apparent split between its liberal and conservative justices, with Anthony Kennedy potentially the decisive vote in determining whether the administration must abandon its refusal to treat carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as air pollutants that imperil public health.

The friggin US Supreme Court is now being asked what they think of global warming…WTF, people?!?

Regardless of what one thinks of the issue (I personally think it’s a FACT that humans affect the environment, the only question is how much), this is so obviously beyond the point of the Supreme Court as to be comical.  Go look at the Constitution for once, 10th Amendment says anything not explicitly listed as a federal power is none of their business, the EPA wasn’t even created until 1970 and there was no constitutional amendment passed for it, so this is a question that they shouldn’t even be asked.  The state and local level, if they so choose, can implement their own ideas — why they don’t, hell if I know…

Environmentalists (the true ones, not the political opportunist types) being shunned while energy company execs get to write their own legislation should be enough proof that the founders knew what they were doing when the feds were so restricted at first.  You hand off power thinking that some central authority is going to work for you, and they end up working against you, I’d say you asked for it basically.