Supreme Court Rules on EPA Regulation of CO2

In a politically divided decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas from vehicles. Other people were worried about the absurdity of regulating a naturally occuring gas, and something that most living things "emit" every few seconds. Climate scientists were very quick to point out the logical conclusions of regulating the "other greenhouse gases" in vehicular emissions, such as water vapor. All you mouth-breathers better watch out, or the EPA will be coming after you to wear a mask whenever you go outside.

Honestly, carbon dioxide and water vapor are now pollutants, because the Supreme Courts says so? Actually no. The ruling says that the EPA has the authority to regulate these emissions, if (that's a big if) ever the policy changes to include carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants, including the discretion not to regulate those gases. What the decision did was to isolate the EPA's reasons for not regulating those emissions solely to policy decisions, as opposed to federalist issues, such as the hodge-podge of tail-pipe emissions regulation by state. But something struck me as incomplete and biased in the AP's story: "Carbon dioxide is produced when fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas are burned." Is this the only way carbon dioxide is produced on this planet, or are you going to hide behind the "context" excuse?