{"id":60176,"date":"2021-10-31T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60176"},"modified":"2021-10-31T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:36:13","slug":"limiting-epas-power-to-regulate-climate-changing-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60176","title":{"rendered":"Limiting EPA’s Power To Regulate Climate-Changing Gases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court To Consider Limiting EPA’s Power To Regulate Climate-Changing Gases<\/a><\/h3>\n
The ruling could challenge the Biden administration’s plan to curb carbon emissions right after a key White House proposal died in Congress.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a set of cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, potentially limiting the Biden administration\u2019s options to curb planet-heating pollution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuits, filed by Republican-controlled states and a West Virginia oil company, aim to curb the federal government\u2019s power to mandate a transition away from fossil-fueled power plants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If the high court\u2019s 6-3 conservative majority finds in favor of the plaintiffs, the ruling wouldn\u2019t eliminate the federal government\u2019s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act, a legal determination known as the endangerment finding.\u00a0It would, however, restrict the legal routes through the Clean Air Act for enacting such rules.\u00a0That could make it harder for the United States to hit its goal to cut emissions in half by the end of this decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an updated grant of certiorari, the Supreme Court said it plans to ask questions about a legal issue known as \u201cnon-delegation doctrine,\u201d which Cornell Law School\u00a0describes<\/a>\u00a0as the \u201cprinciple in administrative law that Congress cannot delegate its legislative powers to other entities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A ruling that explicitly requires Congress to pass new laws allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions could prove an even bigger setback.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The White House abandoned its main legislative proposal to pay utilities to produce more zero-carbon electricity, and fine those that fail to increase their clean output each year, after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he\u2019d torpedo the administration\u2019s agenda if Democrats included the measure in a sweeping spending bill currently under consideration. Democrats are also expected to lose control of Congress in next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Supreme Court To Consider Limiting EPA’s Power To Regulate Climate-Changing Gases The ruling could challenge the Biden administration’s plan to curb carbon emissions right after a key White House proposal died in Congress. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a set of cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, potentially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[32052,113,141,3185,1470,328,17346,32051,5264],"class_list":["post-60176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alexander-c-kaufman","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-huffpost","tag-united-state","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176\/revisions\/60177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}