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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have broad authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.
This was a major blow to the federal government’s longstanding tradition of policymaking by unelected bureaucrats.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, which concerned the Biden administration’s efforts to force energy production away from coal and toward so-called “green” alternatives such as solar and wind under the powers delegated to the EPA by the Clean Air Act, and how much of its own authority Congress can transfer elsewhere.
“Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day,’” Roberts wrote. “But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own
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