Supreme Court’s ‘Major Questions’ Focus Could Hamper Biden EJ Efforts

The Supreme Court’s decision to constrain EPA’s greenhouse gas regulatory authority under the “major questions” doctrine may similarly hamper the Biden administration’s efforts to elevate environmental justice (EJ) and climate change across several agencies, according to a former Obama EPA official. The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA “is introducing a lot of uncertainty” into already novel EJ efforts, argued Stacey Halliday, who served as an Obama EPA special counsel and is now at Beveridge & Diamond, during...