Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That the Planet Should Burn

[Nevilledog]

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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot regulate how much climate pollution power plants emit under the Clean Air Act. The court ruled 6-3, along idealogical lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion.

“Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day,” Roberts wrote. “But it is not plausible that Congress gave the EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme … A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.”

West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency stemmed from the Clean Air Act, an Obama-era law that mandated certain emissions regulations. West Virginia was one of several fossil-fuel-rich states to sue the EPA over the regulations, leading the Supreme Court to rule that the Clean Power Plan (the part of the Clean Air Act that called for emissions regulations) must be suspended until the courts could upheld its legality. The Trump administration issued its own industry-friendly plan that may have even increased emissions, but it never went into effect, either. The courts struck the Affordable Clean Energy plan down just as the former president was leaving office.

It’s now up to the Biden administration to propose a replacement. It will be severely limited in its ability to do so thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday.

Elena Kagan authored the dissenting opinion. “Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change,” the liberal justice wrote. “The Court appoints itself — instead of Congress or the expert agency — the decision maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”

*the end*

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Just another day in the "Party of Life".

[maxsolomon]

2. And the poison pills the GQP put into the EPA at its inception bear fruit.

If they can't stop Progressive legislation, they poison it so it can't be effective (AWB 10 year limitation).

or they starve it's budget so it can't be effective (IRS).

[moondust]

3. Fossil Fuels Court of

Short-Term Profits Über Alles!


Thanks Reagan, Milton Friedman, and The Man Who Broke Capitalism. Too bad those three little pigs can't be here to watch it all burn, flood, and choke to death.

[Celerity]

4. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire (1979)

Label: Philips – 6172 248
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Blue injection moulded
Country: France
Released: 1979
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Disco

Fire
I'll bind you to burn
Fire
I'll bind you to learn
Burn!
You fought hard and you saved
But it's all going to burn
Got your mind, you turn around
You've been so blind
You fall behind!
Fire
I'll take you to burn
Fire
I'll take you to learn
You're gonna burn

[In It to Win It]

5. SCOTUS to America: It's not personal. It's just business