The Supreme Court's EPA ruling isn't the only legal attack on the environment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : With more favorable judges, some Republican state governments have seized the opportunity to challenge environmental laws.
50% : "I do think that the West Virginia case can be seen as part of a larger trend directed at restricting the ability of EPA and other agencies to protect health, safety, and the environment," said William Boyd, an environmental law professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
50% : Earlier this month, President Biden announced he would use the Defense Production Act to build clean energy technologies, including solar panels and heat pumps.
49% :The West Virginia v. EPA decision is just the latest in a series of recent lawsuits and rulings that are eroding protection for air, water, and the climate.
45% : The vote in the West Virginia v. EPA decision on Thursday was 6-3, with the Court's three liberal members dissenting.
45% : Under President Trump, the EPA launched a campaign to undo or undermine a long list of environmental regulations.
44% : Not every recent ruling has undermined environmental laws.
44% : The Biden administration can also work with states to develop state-level environmental policies that, when put together, could have a similar effect to federal regulation from the EPA.
42% : The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a decision that says the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants without authorization from Congress, drastically limiting the policy tools the EPA can use to address climate change.
41% : As Vox's Ian Millhiser described it, West Virginia v. EPA is "a case about an environmental regulation that no longer exists, that never took effect, and that would not have accomplished very much if it had taken effect."
39% : He added, "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."
31% : In many cases, those actions were blocked by courts, including Trump's replacement for the Clean Power Plan at the center of the West Virginia v. EPA case.

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