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(24,703 posts) Fri Feb 25, 2022, 09:19 PM Feb 2022

Opinion: The Clean Air Act -- and legal precedent -- are at risk this Supreme Court term

By Sarah Lipton-Lubetand Jamal Raad -February 25, 2022 3:11 PM

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could 'eviscerate the EPA's ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.'

For more than a half century, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act have been at the center of America's protection of our environment. They have been essential tools in reducing toxic substances like arsenic in the air we breathe, in overcoming smog and acid rain crises of the 1980s and 1990s. Pollution cuts have "saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars."

But the work of the Clean Air Act and the EPA is not done — far from it. Indeed, all of the progress we have made on environmental protection to date pales in comparison with what the future demands, as climate change poses an existential threat to the livability of our nation and our planet.

Left unchecked, climate change will make Americans sicker, poorer, and less secure. Diseases like malaria, all but unknown in America, will spread; food and water will be scarcer. Wildfire smoke will make breathing our air difficult and deadly. Natural disasters and disease will weaken our economy, impoverishing millions. Climate change is dramatically affecting everyday life across America: impacting our health, harming our economy, and taking the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. As CNN notes, climate-fueled weather disasters "have cost the United States more than $750 billion over [the] past five years."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/supreme-court-epa-climate-change-clean-air-act-west-virginia-case-pollution-environment/

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