Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants — pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

But it’s only a start.

The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming.

Coming up through the federal courts are more climate cases, some featuring novel legal arguments, each carefully selected for its potential to block the government’s ability to regulate industries and businesses that produce greenhouse gases.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-drive-to-tilt-courts-against-climate-action-reaches-a-crucial-moment/ar-AAYCTip

The GOP wants you to die for their freedumb.

[CrispyQ]

1. I guess none of them have kids or grandkids or great-grandkids. -nt

[slightlv]

2. This is exactly how they accomplished the killing of Roe v Wade

So, they're going to continue the "chipping" at climate legislation until there's nothing left, as well. What else is on the chopping block? We know they detest public education. We know they detest the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Will they use SCOTUS to "chip" away at those until the legislation for these are gone? Or will they just use Executive Orders?

If we don't expand the SCOTUS, by hook or by crook, we're going to find ourselves without a country we recognize whether we go fascist or not!

[czarjak]

3. "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'". Clayton Williams meant it when he said to relax and enjoy

[PlanetBev]

4. My God, don't these people realize they breathe the same air we do?

Do they think we have a spare planet somewhere?