From: "Mark" 

Sounds like good news. After they cannot prove their case the global
warming canard will fade into the obscurity it deserves. It may turn into a
"be careful what you wish for" problem for all those grant
grubbing "scientists" as they see their funding go south after
the fact as well.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:430d1ee0{at}w3.nls.net...
> Judge Jeffrey White, a former partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe,
> was appointed to the Northern District by President Bush in 2002. < no
> liberal judges making this ruling >
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050825/ap_on_sc/global_warming
>
> SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge here said environmental groups and four
> U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the
> overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.
>
> The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White is the first to
> say that groups alleging global warming have a right to sue.
>
> "This is the first decision in the country to say that climate change
> causes sufficient injury to give a plaintiff standing, to open the
> courthouse door," said Ronald Shems, a Vermont attorney representing
> Friends of the Earth.
>
> That group, in addition to Greenpeace and the cities of Boulder, Colo.,
> Santa Monica, Oakland and Arcata, Calif., sued Overseas Private Investment
> Corp. and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Those government
> agencies provide loans and insure billions of dollars of U.S. investors'
> money for development projects overseas. Many of the projects are power
> plants that emit greenhouses gases that the groups allege cause global
> warming.
>
> The coalition argues that the National Environmental Policy Act, the law
> requiring environmental assessments of proposed development projects in
> the United States, should apply to the U.S.-backed projects overseas. The
> U.S. law should apply, they say, because those developments are
> contributing to the degradation of the U.S. environment via global warming
>
> The case is Friends of the Earth v. Watson, 02-4106.
>
>

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