What you need to know about the Supreme Court's EPA case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In their own brief, Apple, Tesla and other major tech firms investing in renewable energy agree that "stable, nationwide rules" on emissions are needed to accelerate that trend.
55% : "It leaves a pathway for EPA to still set meaningful standards.
55% : It puts the country even further off track from Biden's goal of running the U.S. power grid on clean energy by 2035 - and making the entire economy carbon-neutral by 2050.
54% : The Supreme Court on Thursday gutted the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to cut climate-warming carbon from the nation's power plants, handing down a decision in the biggest court case on climate change in more than a decade.
54% : Here's what the decision in West Virginia v. EPA means for the country - and the planet.
52% : A trade group called America's Power - which consists of coal-mining firms, barge operators and equipment manufacturers as well as some electric utilities - argued in its own brief that the EPA must be reined in since coal is necessary for keeping energy prices low and the grid reliable.
45% : A group of electric utilities serving more than 40 million people, some of which have divested from coal, told the court its decision to even hear the case is "premature" and "untethered to actual circumstances" driving change in the power sector.
45% : The court declined to strike down a landmark 2007 ruling called Massachusetts v. EPA, in which a liberal majority said the EPA could use its Clean Air Act authority to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
44% : And the majority allowed the EPA to still regulate power plants - it just cannot do so now by forcing utilities to shift from coal to renewables.
42% : "The consequences potentially reach far beyond EPA and the Clean Air Act," said Lisa Heinzerling, an environmental law professor at Georgetown.
40% : Pointing to a portion of the law allowing the EPA to regulate pollutants that "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissenting opinion: "Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fit that description."Was a carbon rule already on the books for power plants?

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