Thursday, June 30, 2022

SCOTUS: Clean Air Act Doesn't Give EPA Authority to Regulate CO2

 The Supreme Court ruled 6 - 3 today that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide in order to shut down coal fired power plants.  The Court seems to think that Congress needs to give the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide.  The Left seems to be going nuts, as you can see at Katie Pavlich's post at Townhall.com entitled The Left is Melting Down Over SCOTUS Ruling on Climate Change. I especially like Elizabeth Warren's comment:

Our planet is on fire, and this extremist Supreme Court has destroyed the federal government’s ability to fight back.
This radical Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, and we can't let them have the last word.
Last I checked, wasn't Warren a Senator from Massachusetts? Isn't the Senate part of Congress? Isn't the Court saying Cogress needs to act?  Matt Whitlock probably said it best:
An unintentionally hilarious response.
Supreme Court: Congress must act to set new major environmental policies, not unelected bureaucrats
Libs: Congress must act.. to take away the Court’s ability to give Congress their authority back.
How do they have the energy for this?
All hilarity aside, the Left has tried again to get an agenda item through the courts that they could not get through the legislative process. That is why they are so upset. SCOTUS has once again turned them around and pointed them to the Congress.

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