A substantial majority of Americans believe the Environmental Protection Agency should be able to regulate the climate-warming air pollution that spews from power plants, according to a poll of likely voters conducted in mid-June.
62% favor
28% against
10% ?
The Supreme Court, unfortunately, is less supportive of the EPA’s regulatory power: Its conservative supermajority limited the ways the EPA can curb carbon emissions from the electricity sector.
Its conservative supermajority limited the ways the EPA can curb carbon emissions from the electricity sector.
iirc, what the court said was that Congress had to explicitly give the EPA authority to regulate carbon emissions. Good luck getting that legislation past all the lobbyists and their shower of “protected free speech”.
iirc, what the court said was that Congress had to explicitly give the EPA authority to regulate carbon emissions. Good luck getting that legislation past all the lobbyists and their shower of “protected free speech”.
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The court made a stupid decision based on politics.