Washington — Thursday's Supreme Court limits the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants Did. Decisions that could hinder the Biden administration's efforts to combat climate change.
The court found that Congress did not empower the EPA to devise emission limits under the Clean Air Act, and split it 6 to 3 in line with its ideology. Judge John Roberts wrote amajority opinion, but the three Liberal parties in the court opposed it.
This decision is a victory in a long-standing bid for a Republican-led group of states and coal companies to reduce the authority of the EPA to issue regulations aimed at curbing carbon emissions.
This incident originated from the EPA's Clean Power Plan, which was finalized in 2015. In this plan, then President Barack Obama instructed us to use the Clean Air Act's sub-clauses to address climate change by imposing obligations on existing coal. A natural gas power plant to reduce emissions.
More than half of the states and other parties challenged the Clean Power Plan in federal court, and in 2016 the Supreme Court suspended the execution of the proposal. } 5-4 votes. During the Obama era, there was a change in the presidential administration while the procedure continued, and the EPA under then-President Donald Trump decided that he had "significantly exceeded" his authority under the Commonwealth. Criteriahave been abolished. Environmental law. Government agencies have also published new guidelines for coal-fired power plants.
