A forthcoming study seeks to inform how courts consider challenges to these regulations by establishing once and for all that the lawmakers who shaped the Clean Air Act in 1970 knew scientists considered carbon dioxide an air pollutant, and that these elected officials were intent on limiting its emissions. arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

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@WideEyedCurious I mean it would be better if Congress simply voted on legislation clarifying it.

That's the job of our representatives.

It shouldn't be outsourced to a research group like this, and if the people we elect to Congress can't be bothered to address the issue then that itself says a lot.

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