One assumes this is more far-reaching than this single ruling.
The take-home message: US Congress sets law, not the bureaucracies.
In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.
The court’s ruling could complicate the administration’s plans to combat climate change. Its proposal to regulate power plant emissions is expected by the end of the year.
President Joe Biden aims to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and to have an emissions-free power sector by 2035. Power plants account for roughly 30% of carbon dioxide output.
The justices heard arguments in the case on the same day that a United Nations panel’s report warned that the effects of climate change are about to get much worse, likely making the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the coming years.
The power plant case has a long and complicated history that begins with the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. That plan would have required states to reduce emissions from the generation of electricity, mainly by shifting away from coal-fired plants.
EVs today, the market on the last day of the quarter:
- TSLA: down 3.3%; down $21; trading at $664
- RIVN: down 5.3%; down $1.38; trading at $24.92
- RIDE: down 6.7%; down 12 cents; trading at $1.62
- GOEV: down 6.2%; down 12 cents; trading at $1.90
- F: down 3.4%; down 39 cents; trading at $11.13
- GM: down 4.3%; down $1.43; trading at $32
- ELMS: of course, under bankruptcy protection
- PLUG: I haven't look at PLUG in months; down 3.2% trading; nears it 52-week low; trading at $16, down from its 52-week high of $46
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Second To Last Day Of Sailing Camp
Corky stays home.
Any idea why the Constitution is interpreted 6-3 on all important rulings?
ReplyDeleteThe scary thing is that these 6 - 3 rulings are not unanimous. What I find most amazing is that Chief Justice Roberts seems to have come around to join the Alioto majority.
DeleteThe old normal is upsetting the judicial power grab of the past. It is amazing to see. Boom.
ReplyDeleteYes, it appears the majority is going back to reading the constitution and interpreting it as written, not as they would like. A lot of pundits suggest this was all about Roe v Wade. As we are seeing, Roe v Wade was simply one of many rulings affected by the new regime.
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