As climate activists wail in the wake of the setback to their agenda recently delivered by the Supreme Court in its West Virginia v. EPA decision, the rest of us should be grateful that the costly and out-of-control federal bureaucracy can now be reined in earlier and more easily.
SCOTUS ruled in West Virginia v. EPA, that the authority of the U.S. EPA under Section 111d of the CAA in controlling greenhouse gas emissions by requiring existing fossil fuel power plants to convert to the use of non-greenhouse gas emitting forms of energy, is limited.
SCOTUS ruled in West Virginia v. EPA, that the authority of the U.S. EPA under Section 111d of the CAA in controlling greenhouse gas emissions by requiring existing fossil fuel power plants to convert to the use of non-greenhouse gas emitting forms of energy, is limited.
The Supreme Court ended its 2021 term with a much-anticipated decision in West Virginia v. EPA.1 The 6-to-3 decision held that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) does not have.