In a rebuke to the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles be classified as pollutants under the Clean Air Act, making them subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a 5-4 decision, the justices sided with 12 states and environmental groups that sought to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gases, overturning the agency's 2003 policy, which did not include the global warming gases in the Clean Air Act.
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