So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it?
- withdrawing the legal scaffolding that allowed the EPA to regulate emissions seems unnecessary if your EPA is already willing to just not actively regulate emissions?
- and the Trump administration has been surprisingly/concerningly successful when just ignoring the law regardless, so why does this corner of regulatory law matter?
Because this makes it harder for future administrations.
As long as this was the court approved status quo (this has been through the Supreme Court before) a future reality based administration could re-implement it.
However, now that they’ve removed it a new administration would have to add this or similar language back which could go through the legal process again (citing changed circumstances or something), allowing the current Supreme Court to knock it down.
> the EPA’s 2009 decision says that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare
I’ll wait until the actual action is taken before deciding where I stand on this.
The above is actually two statements: that greenhouse gasses cause warming, and that warming is harmful overall. I could see reversing the latter as consistent with this administration’s positions - the former is, as far as I know, not really up for debate.
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[ 6.8 ms ] story [ 668 ms ] threadBut I would wager long-term large-scale changes to investment/spend is unlikely, especially if the mid-terms swing blue.
- withdrawing the legal scaffolding that allowed the EPA to regulate emissions seems unnecessary if your EPA is already willing to just not actively regulate emissions?
- and the Trump administration has been surprisingly/concerningly successful when just ignoring the law regardless, so why does this corner of regulatory law matter?
As long as this was the court approved status quo (this has been through the Supreme Court before) a future reality based administration could re-implement it.
However, now that they’ve removed it a new administration would have to add this or similar language back which could go through the legal process again (citing changed circumstances or something), allowing the current Supreme Court to knock it down.
The big question I have, are there any corresponding agencies in the EU or China we should be paying attention to
The first time the Supreme Court intervened to quash regulations with no explanation via the so called "shadow docket" was the Clean Power act.
https://legal-planet.org/2024/08/23/clean-air-and-the-turboc...
I’ll wait until the actual action is taken before deciding where I stand on this.
The above is actually two statements: that greenhouse gasses cause warming, and that warming is harmful overall. I could see reversing the latter as consistent with this administration’s positions - the former is, as far as I know, not really up for debate.