Supreme Court ruling in EPA case eviscerates administrative state

Opinion The Supreme Court concluded its 2021 term with another block-buster ruling, this time in West Virginia v. EPA, which struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration that sought to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act ev...

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Published inThe Business Journal - Central New York Vol. 36; no. 28; p. 9
Main Author Romano, Robert
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Syracuse Central New York Business Journal 11.07.2022
Subjects
Air cleanliness
Carbon
Coal-fired power plants
Electricity
Federal regulation
Industrial plant emissions
Natural gas
West Virginia
United States > US
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Summary:Opinion The Supreme Court concluded its 2021 term with another block-buster ruling, this time in West Virginia v. EPA, which struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration that sought to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act even though the law never contemplated doing so. The Kennedy ruling set the stage for the 2009 carbon-endangerment finding by the EPA during the Obama administration, and the Clean Power Plan's rules on new and existing power plants that defined carbon dioxide as a harmful pollutant under the terms of the Clean Air Act. [...]the consumer price index for electricity has increased by 29 percent since 2007, according to data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.