The Supreme Court ruled last year that the agency could
regulate carbon dioxide, the most prevalent global warming gas,
under existing law.
Include new sources in the mass - based trading program by
regulating these sources
under state
law and adopting the EPA - provided mass budget that includes the mass - based goal for
existing units plus the new source complement;
Still, some environmental groups fear that McCain will not respond to climate change aggressively enough and further, might fill vacant positions on the Supreme Court with conservative judges who would overturn last year's ruling that the EPA has the authority to
regulate carbon dioxide
under existing laws.
The Constitutional Court has also held that the duty of the legislature and other lawmaking subjects to revise all legal acts adopted by them before the entry into effect of the Constitution and which still remain in force, also the legal acts adopted by no longer
existing institutions after the entry into effect of the Constitution and still remaining in force, which
regulate the relations which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of a corresponding
law - making subject, as well as legal acts, which had been adopted before the restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and remained in force after restoration of the independent State of Lithuania and, after the entry into effect of the Constitution,
regulate the relationships, which are assigned to the sphere of regulation of an appropriate legislative subject, and assess their conformity with the Constitution within a reasonably short period, stems from the principle of the supremacy of the Constitution, and the constitutional principle of a state
under the rule of
law (the Constitutional Court's ruling of 29 October 2003).