In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the court’s conservative majority ruled that the EPA does not have the authority to set industrywide emissions standards for the nation’s power plants.
Perspectives“It may now be mathematically impossible through available avenues for the US to achieve its goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, which is anyway feeling dangerously unambitious in light of recent climate disasters.” — Peter Kalmus,“The ruling limits the EPA’s ability to regulate climate change, but leaves enough room that the agency still must try to do so.
“The West Virginia v. EPA ruling could have been far, far worse, albeit in the same way that a Category 3 hurricane causing tens of thousands of dollars of damages to your home is preferable to a Category 5 storm leveling the whole neighborhood.” — Kate Aronoff,“This decision is widely being reported as a climate change case and a defeat for President Biden’s zero-carbon agenda.
“‘Federal agencies must have the authority to regulate carbon!’ every Democrat wailed in response to this week’s ruling. To which the obvious response is: Then give it to them! Pass a law. Do your job.” — Kimberley A. Strassel,“The right-wing SCOTUS majority is now effectively saying that climate change is such a ‘major question’ that if the EPA wants to regulate it in an effective and systematic way, Congress has to pass a new law giving them the specific authority.
“The court in its opinion did not touch EPA's ability to regulate other sources of greenhouse gas emissions — for example from vehicles, or methane emissions from oil and gas. But cases on those issues are already circulating in the lower courts and could eventually be elevated to the Supreme Court.” — Ella Nilsen,“It sends a signal to EPA that when they make future rules about greenhouse gasses in particular, that they're going to be highly constrained in what they can do.
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