High jurisdiction has severely restricted the capacity of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency to force the reduction of CO2 emissions by power plants. The president denounced a “devastating decision”.
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The United States Supreme Court has severely restricted the capacity of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force the reduction of emissions from Co 2 by the US power plants . This decision, published Thursday, June 30, will hinder the task of President Joe Biden, who has set himself the objective of producing in the United States neutral carbon electricity by 2035. It was taken by a composed majority of Six conservative judges (on nine members of the courtyard). They believe that Congress has never given such power to EPA, created in 1970 to enforce environmental laws.
“The ceiling of carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a transition to the national scale and to get out of coal to produce electricity can be a” solution sensible to the crisis of the day “, writes the President of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. But it is not plausible that Congress gave the EPA the power to adopt such a regulatory system on its own … a decision of such magnitude and with such consequences is the responsibility of the congress itself, or to an agency acting under a clear delegation. “Judge Elena Kagan replied on behalf of the three dissident judges that” the court is proclaimed in matters of climate policy – Place of the Congress or the Agency with expertise “, judging the” frightening “case.
After the revocation of federal law to abortion by the same Supreme Court, Mr. Biden denounced “another devastating decision which aims to make our country back down” but assured that it “would not cease to use [ s] Es legitimate powers to protect public health and fight against the climate crisis “.
triple quarrel
The quarrel actually is triple. Climate, on the means of constraining the American economy to produce less of co 2 , while it is the second transmitter in the world of greenhouse gas. “Our planet is on fire and this extremist supreme court destroys the ability of the federal power to fight,” protested progressive senator Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts). Politics: Congress being paralyzed by its divisions, it is supplemented by the presidential power and its agencies, but also by the Supreme Court. But by wanting to return power to the congress, the court actually returns it to the conservatives, in the absence of a progressive majority in the Capitol. “Today, the Supreme Court makes power to the people,” said the chief of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell (Kentucky).
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