Posted on 06/29/2024 2:34:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A spate of decisions over the past two years by the Supreme Court has significantly impaired the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to limit pollution in the air and water, regulate the use of toxic chemicals and reduce the greenhouse gasses that are heating the planet.
This term, the court’s conservative supermajority handed down several rulings that chip away at the power of many federal agencies.
But the environmental agency has been under particular fire, the result of a series of cases brought since 2022 by conservative activists who say that E.P.A. regulations have driven up costs for industries ranging from electric utilities to home building. Those arguments have resonated among justices skeptical of government regulation.
On Friday, the court ended the use of what is known as the Chevron doctrine, a cornerstone of administrative law for 40 years that said that courts should defer to government agencies to interpret unclear laws. That decision threatens the authority of many federal agencies to regulate the environment and also health care, workplace safety, telecommunications, the financial sector and more.
But more remarkable have been several decisions by the court to intervene to stop environmental regulations before they were decided by lower courts or even before they were implemented by the executive branch.
On Thursday, the court said the E.P.A. could not limit smokestack pollution that blows across state borders under a measure known as the “good neighbor rule.” In that case, the court took the surprising step of weighing in while litigation was still pending at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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several rulings that chip away at the power of many federal agencies.
Cool. Fire them all and close the agency.
I believe the career bureaucrats have their own interests and political agenda in mind when they attempt to impose many ridiculous regulations. Fire 50% of these misguided and freedom-hating losers immediately. If the remaining “public servants” complain...fire them. Also, take away their unions.
A good ruling by the Supreme Court as far as I am concerned.
Anything known as a "rule" should immediately become null and void. "Laws", passed by congress, should determine.
Correction: It hits hard at the Administrative State “legislating” by issuing “Rules”.
“significantly impaired the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority “
The EPA has no such authority, they just grabbed it. No one stopped them.
imagine that! now maybe they will actually have to PASS LAWS!!!!!!!!
Sat in on a case once. The owner had pictures of the peach orchard and the house that existed 0n the property 100 years before. Nope...Gov said it was a wetland. So finally...they realized the dishonesty of the government with these “illegal” takings.
Shut ‘er down.
“...and reduce the greenhouse gasses that are heating the planet.”
Yay! Warm, globe. Warm! Coffee beans grown in the Yukon. Mangos from Montana. Cotton in upstate New York. Dykes building dikes on the coastline. What’s not to love. AC blasting in the sun belt, increasing green house gases even more!
I wanted a simple pond to train my hunting retrievers. I have 12 acres, fenced, and a lovely stream, as well as an available well. Ground water is at about 30 feet.
The ()&*^*^&%$$%!!! Corps of Engineers and Cobb County between them fought me to a standstill. After all their stupid requirements, my civil engineer-designed pond that my contractor estimated would cost about 20K ballooned to over 150K, not to mention felling a bunch of beautiful white and red oak trees. No can do.
If the whole lot of them were exiled to Hudson's Bay, it would be a good thing (and Canada prob wouldn't even notice). A pox on all their houses!
“Anything known as a “rule” should immediately become null and void. “Laws”, passed by congress, should determine.”
This ^^^^ 1000 times this. Unless it’s enumerated in pass, signed law it’s not law of the land there is no rules.
Backdoor Communism:
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose (whatever that means).
Good, because Climate Change is a LIE.
It’s a superstition.
It is undersea volcanic activity. I want to see AOC go and stop it.
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