In West Virginia v. EPA, Supreme Court Delivers Win for Self-Government

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : In that sense, the court's 6 to 3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA is very good news for electricity consumers across the country, who are now protected from boundless, unaccountable meddling by the EPA in their electric bills.
56% : That was the occasion for the Supreme Court's hearing of West Virginia v. EPA.
53% :What West Virginia v. EPA reminds us of is that America is not run by an unaccountable king in the White House and his regulatory agents, but rather by Americans' elected representatives in partnership with the states.
50% : The Clean Power Plan established reduction mandates for greenhouse gas emissions and a cap-and-trade system designed to close coal and natural gas plants in favor of renewables.
50% :At its core, the issue the Clean Power Plan presents is whether EPA is bound by the rule of law and must operate within the framework established by the United States Constitution.
46% : In short, the Supreme Court shut down the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to completely reengineer Americans' sources of electricity around a radical climate agenda based on the agency's expansive interpretation of a narrow provision in the Clean Air Act.
42% : Monumental decisions on issues of life, the Second Amendment, and religious freedom have now been followed up by West Virginia v. EPA, a decision that has major implications for checking runaway regulators and for the economy.

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