The Supreme Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision to restrain the federal government's ability to regulate emissions at power plants.
The case declares it unlawful for federal agencies to make 'major' decisions without clear authorization from Congress. It appears to allow for regulations focused narrowly on capping pollution from smokestacks, but blocks wider rules that set state-by-state targets for emissions reduction or a cap-and-trade system that would trigger a faster shift to clean energy.
It prevents the Biden administration from instituting the sort of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to implement under the Obama administration. The Supreme Court put Obama's Clean Power Plan on hold in 2016, and it never took effect.
The court sided with coal power plants and GOP-led states in West Virginia v. EPA, reviewing an appeals court decision to axe the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, a Trump-era regulation that effectively gutted the Clean Power Plan.
Though the Clean Power Plan never took effect, the utility sector met its goals - a 32 percent reduction of carbon pollution from 2005 levels by 2030. The Biden administration had planned to write a fresh regulation and asked the Supreme Court to hold off on stepping in.
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The federal bureaucracies have LONG been overreaching their authority through the use of regulations crafted by unelected bureaucrats. This decision is the harbinger of further limiting other agencies. The Supreme Court can only address the question before it. Future lawsuits may be in the offing to limit the CDC and other rogue agencies.
They need to curtail the other criminal agencies but failed.
Another great win. We need to keep profits private and we need to have a state decide when the public bears the cost of a company's pollution. Private enterprise and profit drive the economy. End of story.
Wow! The SCOTUS is on a roll for once - the right kind!
Where is the ruling to limit the CDC as well?
The "green" movement is a scam to implement the new world order global dictatorship that will enslave the entire population of the planet under un despots led by satan!!!!!!!!!! Odd how the left doesn't go after the countries who are creating the most pollution or the politicians and bureaucrats like al gore who spout about taking We the People back to the stone age while flying around the world on very polluting jets!!!!!!!!!! HYPOCRISY abounds on the left!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, hey Hey, at least we are pointed in the right direction!! Let's go Brandon!!!
Bide is not the president. AND he has no authority to tell Supreme Court anything at all.
It seems SCOTUS is reestablishing States Rights although they are not as strong in their decisions as I had hoped they would have been.
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