The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon emissions that cause climate change.
Updated June 30, 2022 at 10:30 AM ET
At issue in the case were rules adopted by the Trump and Obama administrations and aimed at addressing the country's single-largest carbon emissions problem – from coal-fired power plants. The Obama plan was broad, the Trump plan narrow. The Obama plan didn't regulate only coal-fired plants.
But on Thursday, the Supreme Court sided with the coal industry, ruling that the Clean Air Act does not authorize anything other than direct regulation of coal-fired plants. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent:"Today, the court strips the EPA of the power Congress gave it to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time. ... It deprives EPA of the power needed—and the power granted—to curb the emission of greenhouse gasses."The decision appears to enact major new limits on agency regulations across the economy, limits of a kind not imposed by the court for 75 years or more.
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