Supreme Court Will Consider Curbing EPA Climate Change Power

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Stohr
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Oct 29, 2021
BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to consider limiting EPA's authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, will hear appeals from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states

Greg Stohr
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Supreme Court Will Consider Curbing EPA Climate Change Power
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, agreeing to hear appeals from coal-mining companies and...
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12:42 PM · Oct 29, 2021

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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, agreeing to hear appeals from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states.

The appeals seek to prevent President Joe Biden’s administration from imposing the type of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to put in place when fellow Democrat Barack Obama was president. The Supreme Court put Obama’s Clean Power Plan on hold in February 2016, and it never took effect.

The conservative-controlled court will review a federal appeals court decision that critics say gave the EPA sweeping authority to reshape key sectors of the U.S. economy, going well beyond what Congress envisioned when it enacted the Clean Air Act.

“EPA now has a judicial edict not to limit itself to measures that can be successfully implemented at and for individual facilities,” argued a West Virginia-led group of 18 states and one governor. “It can set standards on a regional or even national level, forcing dramatic changes in how and where electricity is produced, as well as transforming any other sector of the economy where stationary sources emit greenhouse gases.”

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[budkin]

1. 9-3 gutting incoming

So obvious.

[jimfields33]

12. Definitely won't be 9-3

[Coventina]

3. Of course it will

Because we live in a suicidal dystopia.

I just wish our suicide wasn't also murdering so many other species at the same time.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I thought this was settled a few years ago

We must use alternative forms of energy to put these guys out of business.

[texasfiddler]

5. This is the real reason why they wanted a right wing supreme court.

I believe climate change is why $$$$ is backing this fascist shit.

[Calculating]

8. You're probably right

It's really about money, and powerful people not wanting to see a radical paradigm shift

[stillcool]

6. more insanity. The crap that dribbles out

every day is like TFG's tweets. Can't get away from the "I can't believe" aspect of life in the U.S.A.

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. One would hope that those 6 goat fucking prostitutes live long enough to

truly experience the he'll they've been unleashing on the rest of us.

[Xavier Breath]

9. I hesitate to agree with you in calling them goat fucking prostitutes

because associating GFP with the Supreme Court will only give the GFP a bad name.

[Carlitos Brigante]

15. You know what? I am confident enough to admit when I've gone too

far. I meant no offense to actual goat sex enthusiasts for hire.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. The People and their Planet versus the greed and moral bankruptcy of corporate fossil fuels.

The latest round, but not the last.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Precisely why we need legislation for it...nt

[Amishman]

14. yup, as much as I like what is being done here through the EPA, we need it directly as law

federal agencies are given too much leeway IMO and it weakens democracy to have such power so far removed from elected officials.