The US Supreme Court just gutted the EPA’s power to regulate emissions
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- Publish Date:
- June 30, 2022
- Author(s):
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- Crownhart, Casey
- Source:
- MIT Technology Review
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Summary
The decision states that the EPA’s actions in a 2015 rule, which included caps on emissions from power plants, overstepped the agency’s authority.
This decision is likely to have “broad implications,” says Deborah Sivas, an environmental law professor at Stanford University. The court is not only constraining what the EPA can do on climate policy going forward, she adds; this opinion “seems to be a major blow for agency deference,” meaning that other agencies could face limitations in the future as well.
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