Supreme Court Limits EPA's Power to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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JUST IN: The EPA does not have broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming, the Supreme Court rules.

But Roberts wrote that the Clean Air Act doesn’t give EPA the authority to do so and that Congress must speak clearly on this subject.

Kagan said the stakes in the case are high. She said,"The Court appoints itself — instead of Congress or the expert agency — the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.” The power plant case has a long and complicated history that begins with the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. That plan would have required states to reduce emissions from the generation of electricity, mainly by shifting away from coal-fired plants.

New York, 21 other mainly Democratic states, the District of Columbia and some of the nation’s largest cities sued over the Trump plan. The federal appeals court in Washington ruled against both the repeal and the new plan, and its decision left nothing in effect while the new administration drafted a new policy., before the Biden administration issued its own rule.

 

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