How the US supreme court could be a threat to climate action in the US | Daniel Epps

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : That's because just three days earlier, the US supreme court agreed to hear a set of cases challenging the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose carbon emissions limits on existing power plants.
45% : Some have argued that addressing the climate crisis may require rethinking society's basic organizing principles, including capitalism itself.
44% : Court watchers expect the court's conservative majority, consistent with a string of rulings in favor of big business and against regulation, to side against the EPA.
44% : Although the court in 2007 ruled that the EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, in the the years since the federal judiciary has become more hostile to regulation and friendlier to business interests.

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