Supreme Court narrows EPA’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions

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In this April 23, 2021, file photo Chief Justice John Roberts sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Matthew VadumThe Epoch TimesThe Supreme Court ruled 6–3 June 30 that the Clean Air Act doesn’t give the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency widespread power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions that a popular theory says contribute to global warming.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court’s majority opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, court file 20-1530. Roberts was joined by the court’s other five conservatives. The court’s three liberal justices dissented.While “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, quoting a 1992 precedent, “it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority
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