The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution – and sent a warning to other regulators

Photo caption: President Joe Biden arrives at the United Nations Climate Summit in 2021. Biden has set a 2030 target for eliminating carbon emissions from the U.S. electric power sector. Photo credit: Adrian Dennis / Pool / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Patrick Parenteau. The Conversation – June 30, 2022.

In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama adminstration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The ruling doesn’t take away the EPA’s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, but it makes federal action harder by requiring the agency to show that Congress has charged it to act – in an area where Congress has consistently failed to act. […]

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