SCOTUS Climate & CO2. . Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute, University of Texas.
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🗓️ 2 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:34.1 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm John Batson with my good colleague, Professor Richard Epstein, who has joined his friend, John Yoo, from the Civitas Institute, to file an amicus brief to the court about |
| 0:47.6 | climate change. Well, it's a related issue. It has to do with nationwide climate policy being |
| 0:53.7 | set by one state and not at the federal |
| 0:56.0 | level. Have I said that correctly, Professor? I don't want to go too far into this. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I mean, it's partly correct, but let me sort of put in a little bit more context. There |
| 1:07.3 | must be 20 states in the country, more coming, which have claimed that the mere decision to sell gasoline in your state makes you the fossil fuel companies that sell it responsible for sea rise around the world. |
| 1:21.8 | The theory of that sort had been accepted in a wide. |
| 1:25.3 | John and I, amongst others, filed briefs to the Supreme Court when |
| 1:28.8 | Biden was president to turn this thing down, and nothing happened. And so right now, there are two |
| 1:34.9 | cases in play. The case that you're talking about is the one from Colorado, where again, John and I |
| 1:41.1 | were active with the Mountain States Legal Foundation, Bill |
| 1:44.2 | Trackman and Ivan London. And we filed a brief, and they basically followed the court in Hawaii. |
| 1:51.2 | And that's the case which is going up. At the same time, there's another case, which is taking |
| 1:55.9 | place in Maryland where the decision was exactly the opposite way. And the court in a very pointed way said, |
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