'The SCOTUS must dismiss this dangerous attack on the CleanAirAct,' says foe_us. 'Too much is at stake.'
the necessity of bold climate action, lawyers for coal companies and Republican-led states tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to strip the Biden administration of its authority to regulate planet-heating pollution from power plants.
"The conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court is on the precipice of limiting EPA's ability to combat climate change and protect public health."could be one of the most significant environmental cases in decades—or even in U.S. history. The highly anticipated oral arguments began Monday morning and lasted about two hours.
"The conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court is on the precipice of limiting EPA's ability to combat climate change and protect public health," Earthjustice's Sam Sankar."It aims to use its made-up 'major questions' doctrine to advance a right-wing deregulatory agenda that will tie the hands of federal agencies as they try to fight pollution and protect our families from the climate crisis."that"it was grotesque to hear Big Coal's lawyers argue for tying EPA's hands on cutting climate-heating pollution, even as the world's scientists warn of a bigger, worsening swath of human suffering.
Rylander emphasized that"no matter how the Supreme Court rules in this case, President Biden still has broad authority under an array of existing laws to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, restrict development of fossil fuels and accelerate a just, clean-energy transition. We're out of time and the president must act boldly now."
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