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million to the party since 2001, including £38,000 to Rishi Sunak’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid. The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbondioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.
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American Trucking Ass’ns, 531 457 (2001) (Justice Scalia). The case involved EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases like carbondioxide under the Clean Air Act. This case was a deviation from Scalia’s pattern: he voted to uphold EPA’s air quality standards. Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007) (Justice Stevens ).
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