Climate activists poised to shift focus to states, businesses after EPA ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Former presidential candidate Tom Steyer, an investor and a co-executive chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, said in an interview that the ruling "puts even more onus" on private businesses and investors to fund projects that will deliver renewable energy at scale.
52% :"States' authority to curb greenhouse gas emissions has not changed," Katims said, adding that his organization would push for more states to adopt measures like renewable energy standards and zero-carbon electricity goals and to create carbon markets that cap power plant emissions.
52% : She pointed to places such as Los Angeles, which is closing city-owned coal and fossil fuel power plants, and Houston, which is powering municipal facilities with clean and renewable energy, as cities where local officials are taking the lead to address the climate crisis.
51% : "The way this is written, and the invocation of the major questions doctrine, is a big shadow over environmental, public health and safety law," Jason Rylander, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said, adding that "decisions like this have a chilling effect" on agencies like EPA as they try to enact rules and policy.
47% :"EPA still has tools to work with.
46% :The ruling will almost assuredly make U.S. climate goals more difficult to reach while shifting climate attention to the states, local governments and investors trying to capitalize on the falling costs of clean energy.
44% : EPA is still going to do the work of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants," said Jack Lienke, a policy adviser for the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU law.
44% : The court's ruling could also damage America's credibility in global climate negotiations, especially with partners that have stronger climate regulations, like the European Union.
43% : Dueling sentiments defined the day for climate activists, investors and lawyers as they reacted to the Supreme Court's decision Thursday in West Virginia v. EPA, which eliminated some of the Environmental Protection Agency's powers to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.
43% : While the federal government's credibility could take a hit in international climate talks, momentum toward low-carbon power might no longer hinge on federal regulation, they argued.
43% : Rylander fears the new doctrine could temper EPA ambitions when "it's not a time to be timid about taking climate action."

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