Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by Bhilai on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:50PM (#31938436)

I agree and its frustrating to see this crowd continually push the point that congress needs to grant explicit powers to the EPA when they already know that every single Republican politician is against moving the needle on climate change. This case was filed by 19 Republican lead states which constitute 44% of emissions in the US and is a multiyear effort by conservative climate change deniers[1] Any significant law will simply not pass the senate because the only thing senate Republicans are apparently good at is blocking progress. So this double play on the part of right leaning commentators is really in bad faith.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/climate/supreme-court-cli...

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by hellojesus on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:53PM (#31938477)

Couldn't Congress roll out a clarification of this rule quickly? They own the big three right now, so it would be pretty easy if they kept any fluff out of the legislation.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by patentatt on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:31PM (#31939542)

I would like to introduce you to Senator Joe Manchin. No substantive climate change legislation is going to pass the Senate. Stop pretending like it's possible.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by jpadkins on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:55AM (#31945720)

Correct. Also, Democrats could have passed an abortion bill in 2008-2010 when they had a super majority in the senate, but choose not to.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by scarmig on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:55PM (#31938493)

This has to be seen as part of a broader program against the administrative state, although here it takes the contours of the climate debate.

For the coming years you'll be seeing the same approach used in this decision to rip apart everything from labor regulations to HUD programs.

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