Daniel Farber Says Sotomayor’s Cost-Benefit Ruling Bodes Well for Environmentalists

The New York Times, May 27, 2009 by Alex Kaplun
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/27/27greenwire-enviro-groups-like-what-they-see-in-obamas-just-6076.html?pagewanted=print

“This was considered a defeat for environmentalists and a victory for advocates of cost-benefit analysis,” Dan Farber, an environmental law expert at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote yesterday on his blog, Legal Planet. “Although Scalia claims to believe in following statutory language to the letter, Sotomayor’s interpretation clearly was more faithful to the statute’s demand that EPA’s standards ‘reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact.'”