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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.""A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body," he added.
48% : The court ruled that the Clean Air Act, the United States' primary federal air quality law, does not grant the EPA the broad authority to require existing coal-fired power plants to reduce their own production of electricity or to subsidize the increased generation of natural gas, wind or solar energy.
43% : The Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to broadly regulate carbon emissions from American power plants without Congressional approval, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
43% : The 6-3 decision was made in West Virginia v. EPA with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion of the court.
43% : "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,'" Roberts wrote.

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