The New York Times’s Felicity Barringer reports that yesterday 18 states, along with several cities and environmental groups, sued the Environmental Protection Agency because the administration has yet to rule on whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health.

The Supreme Court ruled last May that if EPA scientists found that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health, they are compelled to regulate those emissions. But now it’s 11 months later and the EPA still hasn’t offered a ruling, in part because they’ve decided to introduce a public comment period on the issue. The public comment period was suggested by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation as a way to delay regulation. Can the will of citizens, states and Congress possibly thwart the Heritage Foundation? Stay tuned.  Read Barringer here.   MB

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