The Supreme Court just gutted a major policy tool the US might have used to tackle climate change
Its decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency essentially says that the EPA shouldn’t be allowed to determine whether the US gets its electricity from clean or dirty sources of energy.That derails previous efforts by the agency to transition the US away from fossil fuels to clean energy sources like wind and solar by regulating the power sector. With the new decision, the agency might be able to push a power plant to install technology to reduce its emissions on-site, but it can’t influence states’ decisions on where they get their energy from in the first place.
Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joined. Justice Gorsuch filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Alito joined. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Breyer and Sotomayor joined.
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Why does it always have to be one way or the other way why is one way the only right way? Why can't we have solar energy wind power coal petroleum hydrogen power? Why can't we use multiple ways of getting energy resources? It makes no sense why we always have to go so extreme one way or the other. I love solar and wind but they're not always available all the time. Why can't we have a mix of electric cars and ones that use gas to? Or hybrids a little bit of everything is probably better balanced we need balance!
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