Why congressional efforts to hobble the EPA may result in a lot more environmental regulation.

[XanaDUer]

Courting Trouble
Why congressional efforts to hobble the EPA may result in a lot more environmental regulation.
By Peter A. Appel
Posted Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, at 5:38 PM ET


Congressional Republicans (and some Democrats) want to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions so much, that, over the past two weeks, they've introduced several new bills that would strip EPA of authority to regulate these precursors to global climate change. What they don't seem to have considered is that in their newfound determination to hamstring EPA, they may well open the door to federal regulation of GHGs from a source that conservatives will come to dislike even more than EPA: the federal courts.

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[drm604]

1. Interesting article.

Conservatives generally prefer law to come from legislators rather than courts, but by fighting necessary environmental regulations they're going to end up throwing the issue back to the so-called "activist judges".