Supreme Court Curbs EPA's Climate Authority in Blow to Biden

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Who is surprised by this?

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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-curbs-epas-climate-authority-in-blow-to-biden?context=search&index=0

The US Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, siding with coal-mining companies and Republican-led states in a blow to President Joe Biden’s climate-change agenda.

The 6-3 ruling interpreting the US Clean Air Act is likely to keep the administration from imposing the type of wide-ranging emissions-cutting plan the EPA tried to put in place when Barack Obama was president. It limits the agency’s available tools amid increasing evidence that climate change is causing rising sea levels and more extreme weather patterns.

The majority said that, while the EPA can regulate power plant emissions, the agency can’t try to shift power generation away from fossil-fuel plants to cleaner sources, as Obama’s Clean Power Plan sought to do.

The court’s three Democratic-appointed justices -- Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- dissented.

The ruling casts fresh doubt on Biden’s pledge to reduce US emissions in half by the end of decade and his goal of a carbon-free electric grid by 2035. Hitting those targets will be impossible without regulations to stifle greenhouse gases from oil wells, automobiles and power plants, as well as tax incentives designed to spur clean energy, according to several analyses.

[AngryOldDem]

1. They did it again.

They’ve laid waste to just about everything this session.

So they slither out of town, smoking ruins in their wake.

Nothing’s safe from them.

[Cyrano]

2. These people will go back to their home planet when

Earth is totally unlivable.

[riversedge]

3. Biden can not expect any breaks from this SC. NOPE. damn!

[C_U_L8R]

4. And they think Jesus will save them.

Why would that dude return to this cesspool after we totally fucked up his father's creation.

[Tatertot]

5. When solar and wind

Are cheaper then fossil fuels, it won’t make any difference what the Supreme Court says on the issue. Drive down the cost of solar, wind and batteries

[Lovie777]

6. Ditto . ..

but in the meantime people will be subject to breathe tainted air.

[edhopper]

8. We might not have the time

for that to happen

[CrispyQ]

7. I don't understand how people with children & grandchildren

aren't highly motivated to do something about climate change. Do they think their money will protect them? Or maybe it's that we lack the imagination to visualize just how drastically we're changing the planet. I don't get it.

[betsuni]

9. "The ruling casts fresh doubt on Biden's pledge" -- sure there'll be "but he promised" Biden blame.

[enough]

10. A blow to all of us.

[spanone]

11. A scotus dead set on destroying our nation....

'siding with coal mining companies'

[elias7]

12. Don't make it political, how it affects Biden

How many does it affect us as human beings on this planet? The media needs to start to personalize this. They stand back, commentating on a faux political fight, when it is actually fundamentalist Christians with their arcane view of the world, ruining our future.