Posted on 06/30/2024 5:00:30 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to discard the 40-year-old precedent established by Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council is a truly harsh blow against environmental protection and climate justice. By overruling the Chevron doctrine that required courts to defer to federal agencies when it came to implementing broadly written laws, the Supreme Court will make it much more difficult for the federal government to regulate pollution — including, but by no means limited to greenhouse gas emissions — among many other issues related to health, labor, consumer welfare, taxation, and on and on.
I am profoundly upset at the damage that this decision will almost certainly inflict on our environment and the fight against climate change. But more philosophically, this decision is also upsetting because it represents a demotion of science and expertise in government.
In the federal government, agencies are where detailed knowledge about specific, complex issues reside; in a healthy society, they would have some authority to manage those issues. In other words, the agencies are the ones that know stuff, and if government is to be effective, they should be able to do stuff.......
My colleague at Columbia, Gil Eyal, draws on a range of examples in his book, “The Crisis of Expertise,” to show how neither expert knowledge nor electoral politics on its own can reliably deliver public trust, or solve complex problems like climate change that have both scientific and political dimensions. Slogans like “listen to the science” gloss over this complexity. So one can’t simply say as a matter of principle that the experts in agencies should have some specific amount of power and no less. But they need to have some power; experts and elected officials need to collaborate for the system to work in the public interest.
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The author does not mention the politicalization of this "science and expertise in government", such as the premise that CO2 is a pollutant.
Moreso, the deafness of these so called government experts in dealing with their out of control regulations.
The liberal tears over this SCOTUS decision is very sweet.
EXCELLENT!!!
Why is it that the more “green” the world becomes, the worse and more frequent the “climate change” events are?
Perfect comment!!!!!!!!!!!
“Green” = take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich.
Wonderful because so-called climate change is a pathetic distortion of science and is a scam. Screw these anti-science, integrity-free liars.
These idiots don’t seem to realize that plants live off of CO2...The less CO2, the less “green” there will be...
FOOLS!!!!!!!!!
“... the fight against climate change...”
Dear Lefttards: Learn some 6th grade astronomy.
“Opinion: The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to our ability to fight climate change”
No, IT DID NOT cause a problem. All it did was require the EPA and other agencies to GO TO CONGRESS if they want to kick Americans out of their gasoline cars. Not a difficult thing to do as Congress will vote OVERWHELMINGLY for their plans, if the planet is about to burn up.
Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe it won’t be so easy for EPA.
Getting rid of Chevron has benefits on so many fronts
When you hire someone to write regulations, that’s their job. Once the job is done, say, air quality is improved, then they have to keep on doing their job. They write regulations. Once everything has been optimized, they start writing regulations on what font to use in which applications and how many times workers can pee while on a government contract.
What the government should do, is hire a consultant to write whatever regulation. Once it’s done, terminate the contract. Don’t make them a public employee forever tasked with writing ever more elaborate and ridiculous regulations.
FUAS
That is some good thinking right there.
EC
I am certain that most if not all air quality rules and regulations put out by the EPA are in fact written by consultants. I know one such rule writer very, very well.
The EPA air quality operation is located in the research Triangle at Raleigh/Durham NC
I’ll have to issue a caution here. I can’t remember which precedes the other......... a rule or a regulation
The love/hate relationship w the SC continues!
I love ❤️ this ruling!!!
Oh no! Nameless , faceless, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats can no longer make up laws on a whim! Oh the horror! /s
I’m becoming convinced it’s a very wicked pagan religion.
the ability to continue thier world scam
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