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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 07:09 PM Jun 2022

Maybe I am misconstruing the recent SCOTUS decision which drastically weakened the EPA.

Does it not essentially require that Congress micro-manage virtually all government actions on a daily basis?

As I understand their ruling, a regulatory agency may not now set any standards or impose any regulations that are not SPECIFICALLY imposed by Congress. They can't just authorize the EPA scientists to set standards for how much of a particular pollutant may be present in our water "using current scientific knowledge". The politicians in Congress must now decide precisely how many parts per million of, say, arsenic, may be in a municipal water supply.

Will Congress now decide which drugs are safe?

Which pesticides are ok for use by homeowners?

How about interest rates? Corporate mergers? Oil leases in Yellowstone?

Are all these not now subject to micromanagement by folks like Greene, Gohmert, Gaetz, Hawley and Cruz?

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Bluethroughu

(5,095 posts)
2. In other words absolutely nothing will get done in government.
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 07:17 PM
Jun 2022

Kochs just got a fucking win against humanity.

sop

(9,946 posts)
4. It's basically open season on regulatory agencies limiting the rape, pillage and plunder of America.
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 07:26 PM
Jun 2022

yonder

(9,631 posts)
5. So what happens when an agency like the FAA
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 07:43 PM
Jun 2022

recommends grounding an unsafe aircraft?(think 737 Max) Do they have to wait for Congress to legislate the grounding?

Or

The Bureau of Reclamation determines a damn is in imminent danger of failing. Sit on their hands until Congress is able to able to act on opening the floodgates?

One could go on and on with examples. This ruling just doesn't make sense.

scarletlib

(3,400 posts)
6. That's pretty much it. An impossible task even if they wanted to do it.
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 07:58 PM
Jun 2022

Corporate wet dream comes to pass. This is why Federalist Society bought and paid for the Supreme Court.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
11. That would be the reasonable solution.
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 10:16 PM
Jun 2022

However, we live in unreasonable land, where salmonella slider is setting meat quality standards.

modrepub

(3,469 posts)
9. Be Careful What You Ask For
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 08:20 PM
Jun 2022

If that's the case then Congress needs to weigh in on a lot more important issues than they probably want to. Politicians mostly pass the buck rather than go out on a limb leavingthe hard decisions go to other folks.

Row v Wade was something Congress wanted no part of. Fat chance Republicans could carry that argument entirely through the legislation process. Legislating is hard unless there's an 5-alarm emergency happening. So Repubs got the SC to do their dirty work. We'll see in November if they've poked a hornets nest. If the economy (gas prices/inflation) wasn't bad, I'd think a blue wave would be almost a certainty.

Just my thoughts, for what they're worth.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
12. A means of mitigation would be to have very active private consumer's unions.
Thu Jun 30, 2022, 10:21 PM
Jun 2022

Almost like kosher everything. If it doesn’t have the seal, don’t buy it.

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