Conservative Supreme Court Could Gut EPA's Ability To Regulate Air Pollution

The conservative-controlled Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the EPA's ability to regulate air pollution beyond the confines of the point of emission. While the Court didn't immediately signal which way they were headed, enough of the conservative majority expressed concerns about giving the agency such broad authority. The climate cannot wait, and neither can human health, but the Court may deliver a devastating setback that we can't afford. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains the case.

Link - https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/596147-supreme-court-wrestles-with-epa-power-to-regulate-climate-change?rl=1

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On Monday of this week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments about a case involving the EPAs power to regulate air pollution coming out of power plants. Now, this lawsuit was filed by several states against the EPA, West Virginia of course, leading the charge on this lawsuit to basically strip the EPA of one of their greatest powers to protect the public. We're talking about air pollution coming out of power plants, coal fired power plants, and these states say, hold up their EPA, you can't regulate what happens to this pollution after it leaves the power plant. That is literally their argument. The argument that the Supreme Court is considering is whether or not the EPA has the authority to regulate that pollution, these particulates that cause cancer, that cause nervous system problems, that cause heart disease, that cause asthma, the Supreme Court is looking at this and saying, does the EPA have any power to regulate that after it leaves that smoke stack, essentially?

And if they say, no, you do not. Well, I would suggest you continue wearing a mask if you live in any of these areas near a coal fired power plant, because pollution is going to be rampant. And it blows my mind, by the way, that we are in the year 2022, we're in the future folks, like this is what the future is supposed to be and we're still first and foremost, running on coal for centuries and centuries and centuries. We're still with coal. We know how dangerous it is for human beings. We know how dangerous it is for the environment. And we're still having our courts protect these coal companies by taking up cases like this. This should have been dismissed immediately. This should not have even made it to the Supreme Court. But it did and I guarantee, the six to three conservative majority is going to strike down the EPAs ability to do this, which is going to make them effectively useless to regulate air pollution in the United States.

And even though the justices, of course, they're gonna issue this ruling in the Summer and they didn't give us any clear indication of which way they're gonna go on it. It's pretty obvious. Justice Samuel Alito came out and was openly concerned, you know, about how far the EPAs power could go if we let them do this. So we know where he's leaning, we know where he's going. We know where Coney Barrett's gonna go. We know where Kavanaugh's gonna go. We know where Gorsuch is gonna go. And we know where Clarence Thomas is gonna go. We know those things. So we know where this case is gonna go. People are gonna die. We're gonna continue the destruction of the environment. And states like West Virginia and Kentucky and all those other Appalachian states are gonna continue to have some of the worst cancer or not some of, they're gonna continue to have the worst cancer rates in the country, the worst overall public health in the country. And just remember they made the decision to do this to their own constituents.