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...ruling allows the EPA to begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, factories and major industrial polluters, although the precise details of that regulation have yet to be worked out. "The threat is real," said Jackson. "If we don't act to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the planet we will leave to the future will be very different than the one we know today." (See TIME's special report on the environment...
Jackson's announcement was the final step in a response that has been nearly three years in the making - since April 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act gives the EPA the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases, if they are indeed a threat to human health and welfare. At the time, the court directed the agency to review the latest science on climate change in order to make a determination...
...Pakistani Taliban against schools all over the country that has left parents panicking, students uneasy and educators worried about whether they're doing enough to protect kids in the middle of a war. Schools have been turned into fortresses, and some students have made attending class an act of defiance. (See pictures of the tensions roiling Pakistan...
...When I feel uneasy or nervous, I act a bit foolish." - Explaining her behavior when questioned by police. Knox was reportedly doing cartwheels and handstands the day after the murder when she was brought into the Italian police station for questioning (People, June 29, 2009) (Read "The Tough Women of the Amanda Knox Case...
...triggered by a mobile phone, a method favored in the Caucasus. Putin, meanwhile, has called for tough measures against those behind the bombing. He said on a TV phone-in on Thursday that the attack showed that the threat to Russia from terrorism remained high. "It is necessary to act in a very tough way against criminals who carry out these kinds of terrorist attacks," said Putin, who went on to urge viewers to remain vigilant to the possibility of future attacks. (See pictures of Vladimir Putin on vacation...