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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here's How.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/climate/epa-supreme-court-pollution.htmlDemocrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Heres How.
In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution. Thatll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.
By Lisa Friedman
Aug. 22, 2022
When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency the broad authority to shift America away from burning fossil fuels.
Now it has.
Throughout the landmark climate law, passed this month, is language written specifically to address the Supreme Courts justification for reining in the E.P.A., a ruling that was one of the courts most consequential of the term. The new law amends the Clean Air Act, the countrys bedrock air-quality legislation, to define the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels as an air pollutant.
That language, according to legal experts as well as the Democrats who worked it into the legislation, explicitly gives the E.P.A. the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and to use its power to push the adoption of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution. Thatll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.
By Lisa Friedman
Aug. 22, 2022
When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency the broad authority to shift America away from burning fossil fuels.
Now it has.
Throughout the landmark climate law, passed this month, is language written specifically to address the Supreme Courts justification for reining in the E.P.A., a ruling that was one of the courts most consequential of the term. The new law amends the Clean Air Act, the countrys bedrock air-quality legislation, to define the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels as an air pollutant.
That language, according to legal experts as well as the Democrats who worked it into the legislation, explicitly gives the E.P.A. the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and to use its power to push the adoption of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer. Here's How. (Original Post)
sl8
Aug 2022
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Yes, Combined with Carbon Capture Technology Hopefully We Can Start Putting the Breaks on
Beetwasher.
Aug 2022
#5
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,170 posts)2. Kick.
Mad_Machine76
(24,412 posts)3. Awesome
Very smart and saavy of them to work that in.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)4. Amazing
Getting us to below 2005 emissions by 2030 is such an ambitious goal, China is also on their way to the same, this catches us up to them. It's a huge deal and gives humanity some hope.
Beetwasher.
(2,977 posts)5. Yes, Combined with Carbon Capture Technology Hopefully We Can Start Putting the Breaks on
This runaway train so my kids and other descendants can have a nice planet.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)6. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️
crickets
(25,981 posts)7. K&R for visibility.