When Justice David Souter retires from the Supreme Court today, environmental interests will lose one of their most dependable votes. "Over his tenure on the court, he evolved from a justice with a pro-business philosophy to a solid vote for the environment on the court in his later years," said Richard Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley's law school. President George H.W. Bush tapped Souter for the high court in 1990, but the little-known New Hampshire jurist surprised Bush and other Republicans by becoming a moderate justice who regularly joined the court's three more liberal members. Go to story #1