Supreme Court curbs EPA's ability to fight climate change

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Remember to VOTE in the midterms! https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/politics/supreme-court-climate-change-epa-regulations/index.html?utm_term=1656599142080c24194d1245d&utm_source=cnn_Breaking+News&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=B%2FAQ%2Fn1aXb9zVW%2B5GbgCTmA8oOnuH3yvjQXX%2B2dlXjeWoP%2BJ5S66GJ%2F8njoHOOCk&bt_ts=1656599142086 The Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat for the Biden administration's attempts to slash emissions at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming. In addition, the court cut back agency authority in general invoking the so-called "major questions" doctrine -- a ruling that will impact the federal government's authority to regulate in other areas of climate policy, as well as regulation of the internet and worker safety. The ruling was 6-3. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the conservative majority, with the three liberal justices dissenting. Roberts said that "our precedent counsels skepticism toward EPA's claim" that the law "empowers it to devise carbon emissions caps based on a generation shifting approach." "Under our precedents, this is a major questions case," Roberts wrote, adding that "there is little reason to think Congress assigned such decisions to the Agency." Roberts wrote that capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal may be a "sensible" solution. "But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme" under the law in question. "A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body," he wrote.