Bloggers analyze the Supreme Court's ruling on greenhouse gases, gush over Alanis Morissette's new Black Eyed Peas cover, and cheer EMI's decision to release unprotected music.

Bench warming: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the EPA's rationale for refusing to regulate greenhouse gas as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The court's decision says the EPA must provide "reasoned justification" if it chooses not to regulate CO₂ and other gasses. Bloggers gauge the decision's impact.

Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice argues the decision is not "whoppingly huge" but is still a "clear slap" to the Bush administration: "[I]t'll be harder for critics of global warming to dismiss concerns as just part of a 'tree hugging' agenda. … And now a winning majority of the Supreme Court could be considered part of those who are concerned." Liberally Conservative, meanwhile, disapproves of the ruling: It "managed to diminish the rules of judicial standing, rewrite the definition of 'pollutant' under the Clean Air Act, and dramatically curtail the decision-making authority of the executive branch."

At the New Republic's Open University, law prof Cass Sunstein envisions two possible outcomes, and predicts either one would face a legal challenge: "(a) The EPA might try to give a better explanation of why it does not seek to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. … (b) The EPA might conclude that it will indeed regulate greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. If so, it will start a (time-consuming) rulemaking procedure."

At Warming Law, a blog started by the Community Rights Council in response to the case, Tim Dowling predicts that the ruling will "affect pending cases … that involve other provisions of the Clean Air Act that use the term 'air pollutant' (most notably, provisions that govern emissions from power plants and other stationary sources)." In addition, he predicts, "the ruling might well prompt the U.S. Congress to act more quickly and more aggressively on comprehensive global warming legislation."

Read more about the Supreme Court's EPA decision.

Her humps: Fading fem-rocker-turned-sensitive-strummer Alanis Morissette has released a video parody of the Black Eyed Peas' ubiquitous "My Humps." Blogger reactions range from befuddled to downright gleeful.

Music blog Idolator gives Alanis props: "[S]omewhere, Tori Amos is hunched in front of a laptop, cursing herself for not thinking of giving this rumination on turning men into quivering, ATM-like masses the sad-piano treatment first." Alex Blagg at VH1's Best Week Ever blog had a similar reaction: "Now if someone can just get Adam Duritz to do a whiny, melancholic cover of 'SexyBack', my life will officially be complete."

At The Mike Abundo Effect, the titular blogger calls the video "[m]ore proof that mass media artists can thrive in social media as long as they let their hair down with the rest of us." Travis Fox at FOXYMORON SUCKS! has some career advice for Alanis: "She should do an entire album of these shitty awful songs in a very serious, emotional way and totally re-invent herself as some sort of Female Weird Al or something."

Mark Blankenship at I Totally Hear That dubs the video "brilliant": "[N]ot only is Morissette mocking the ludicrousness of 'My Humps,' she's also mocking herself. The fact that she recorded this song in the 'Morissette style,' with the haunting piano and angsty wailing in tact, proves that she knows she can sometimes seem like a drippy flower child."