Winning Streak.

The article reports on the progress of cases in favor of upholding environmental laws and regulations ignored or circumvented by the Bush administration. Two landmark outcomes involved the decision of the court to vote in favor of the ruling to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants and the need for power companies to secure Environmental Protection Agency permits for renovation work. The spring of 2007 also marked the decision to rule mountaintop removal mining as a violation of the Clean Water Act.