Doomsday: Supreme Court decision a dagger for efforts to curb carbon emissions, experts say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : President Biden's goal of a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030 hinges on a transition to clean energy.
50% : Does the Environmental Protection Agency have the power to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants?
47% : West Virginia v. EPA though, revolved around 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), one of many provisions Congress has added to the Clean Air Act over the years.
46% : The ruling on West Virginia v. EPA razed the agency's legal authority to regulate the electrical grid with significant consequences for the Biden Administration's climate agenda, which climate scientists already call the bare minimum.
44% : Coal has the largest carbon footprint and the dirtiest one to boot, according to Anenburg.
43% : Until 2007, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on Massachusetts v. EPA, that not only can the EPA regulate greenhouse gasses but the EPA must regulate them or face litigation.
43% : "We absolutely can not just sit back and wait for market forces to organically move us away from coal," she expounded.
42% : The regulation would have made coal-powered industries uncompetitive as a result of the inefficiency of coal with a cap would force coal-fired power plants to shut down, which was the intention of the Clean Power Plan.
41% : "All of our other cases, whether its regulation of tobacco or regulation of evictions under major questions doctrine, have not addressed the 'how.'
39% : On Feb. 27, just one day before the Supreme Court heard arguments for West Virginia v. EPA, an expansive report from the United Nations reaffirmed that the fossil fuel industry poses a significant hazard to human health.
26% :On a basic level, West Virginia v. EPA concerns the D.C. Circuit Court ruling, which invalidated the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and scrapped President Trump's Affordable Clean Energy rule that was put in its stead.

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