[FreeReign]

Here is my understanding of how it works. Congress passes a bill that, for example, all cars must get 50 miles per gallon by 2030. They assign the authority to write that law into regulations to the EPA...

The current standards were made up by the EPA, Congress didn't pass them. The EPA has no Constitutional authority to make up standards.

[Gen.Blather]

” The EPA has no Constitutional authority to make up standards. “

I agree with you 100%, but if that case went to the Supremes and they lost, our entire governmental structure would collapse. (A good thing, I think.) Think of all the hundreds of thousands of regulations that have the force of law passed by dozens of alphabet agencies.

Several years ago Congress requested a list of regulations from the DOJ that mandated jail time. The DOJ responded that there were thousands and there was no way to list them all or even find them all.

At the state level you can go to prison for disturbing tortious eggs, an eagle’s nest or catching too many of some protected fish. I don’t know one fish from another but the penalties are so strict I simply don’t fish.