Supreme Court Freezes Obama Plan to Limit Carbon Emissions

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Feb. 9, 2016

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"'The bigger signal here is that there’s a lot of skepticism from the Supreme Court,' said Richardson, a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think-tank. 'You’re getting an earlier view of how the justices feel.'"

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Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.

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