The final insult

 

A coal-fired power plant in Winfield, W.Va. At question in the case was whether the Clean Air Act allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to issue sweeping regulations across the power sector.

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The final insult from the court from hell, this time, the environment because it's ok to pollute the planet because it's all about the money, right?

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to address climate change.

The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal justices in dissent, saying that the majority had stripped the E.P.A. of “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.”

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Addendum: The ramifications of the West VA vs the EPA sc ruling goes beyond pollution, it goes to the right of government to protect the citizens of America.

The Supreme Court Sabotages Efforts to Protect Public Health and Safety

The decision amounts to a warning shot across the bow of the administrative state. The court’s current conservative majority, engaged in a counterrevolution against the norms of American society, is seeking to curtail the efforts of federal regulators to protect the public’s health and safety. The court already invoked a similar logic during the Covid pandemic to strike down workplace Covid testing requirements and a federal moratorium on evictions. And by refraining from defining a threshold for what constitutes a “major question,” the court is leaving a sword hanging over every new rule.