Climate Heads to High Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether CO2 is a pollutant in a case brought by twelve states against the Environmental Protection Agency.

A case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court by Massachusetts and eleven other states will call for CO2, a greenhouse gas that causes global warming, to be classified as a pollutant, and regulated by the EPA. Host Bruce Gellerman turns to professor David Driesen of the Syracuse University College of Law, and a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, to explain the case and what it could mean.