EPA "overreaching" with global warming finding ATLANTA and WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representing 13 U.S. Representatives, 17 companies and associations and itself, the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) today filed a Petition for Judicial Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, challenging the Endangerment Finding on carbon dioxide emissions issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December 2009. In December, SLF filed a Petition for Reconsideration with the EPA on the Finding – and is filing a supplemental EPA Petition this week which includes blockbuster disclosures on scientific errors and fraud. All legal documents and filings, as well as scientific background and reports, are available at www.epalawsuit.org. The complete list of plaintiff-petitioners follows this release. "Representing a group of well-informed and concerned Americans, including leaders in Congress who have been intimately involved in climate change issues for more than a decade, SLF has filed this important court action to enforce the rule of law and prevent the unprecedented power grab by the EPA and this Administration ," said Shannon L. Goessling, SLF Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel (pronounced GUESS-ling). "The goal is to compel the federal government to follow the laws as enacted by Congress and to pursue legitimate public policy based on legitimate scientific data. The American people deserve no less, and the U.S. Constitution mandates it." "The scientific basis for the EPA Endangerment Finding is flawed, based on questionable and potentially fraudulent data, and certainly does not rise to the level of certainty necessary to upend the American economy, toss millions out of work, and which promises little or no climate change benefit over the next half-century," said Goessling. "The reality is that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are crumbling beneath the weight of scientific exposure, and the EPA has tied itself to the IPCC reports lock, stock and barrel."