Supreme Court rejects landmark emissions case

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Judges rule against bid to curb power companies' output by declaring their emissions a "public nuisance"

The US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a lawsuit against the country's five biggest power companies, which would have declared their emissions a "public nuisance" and forced them to take drastic carbon-cutting...

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