In English common law, arson referred to the burning of another person's dwellings under circumstances that endangered human life.
She said the Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, obliged the agency to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions endangered human health and welfare.
This strange, discomfiting novel captures, in flashes and flickers, the infinite, inconsequential mystery of the endangered human soul that's always on its way toward winking out in the dark.
Cataclysm reappears as a tsunami in Wave, the collection's sombre tour de force, but, on the borrowed time of its gently rippling edges, the endangered human species flourishes, and there are tender observations and observances reminiscent of Hardy and Larkin.
Under Ms. Jackson — who has said the idea that progress on the environment has to hurt the economy is a "false choice" — the agency declared late last year that greenhouse gases endangered human health and welfare.
It filed a 21-page petition on August 25 asking for the EPA and environmental and business groups to undertake a credible weighing of the scientific evidence that global warming endangered human health.
Such a change in strategy, which never endangered human life, was a response to the stubbornness of the Liberal government of the day that, over a long period of time, had debated women's suffrage bills but never passed them, and then prohibited women from protesting in public arenas.
That ruling meant that the Environmental Protection Agency would determine whether, like many other pollutants, CO2 endangered human health.
PAGE A9 Alibi for a Microbe Pfiesteria piscicida, a marine microbe blamed for killing fish and endangering humans, may be innocent on both counts, some scientists say.
Using small amounts of antibiotics over long periods of time leads to the growth of bacteria that are resistant to the drugs' effects, endangering humans who become infected but cannot be treated with routine antibiotic therapy.
Getting a complete aerial picture cost-effectively and without endangering humans could increase the efficacy of preemptive burning, reducing the impact to lives and property.
