Supreme court limits EPA's power to combat climate change - Carbon Brief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : He said: "EPA can no longer sidestep Congress to exercise broad regulatory power that would radically transform the nation's energy grid and force states to fundamentally shift their energy portfolios away from coal-fired generation."
45% : EPA also has other tools to control pollution from coal-fired power plants".
44% : In a majority opinion authored by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr, he wrote: "Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible 'solution to the crisis of the day'...But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme."
44% : It continues: "Dubbed West Virginia vs EPA, the case was brought by a host of Republican attorneys-general and the coal industry.
44% : That rule was later torn up by the Trump administration in favour of its Affordable Clean Energy rule, designed to support the coal industry.

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