Weekly Analysis

Court Widely Expected To Gut EPA’s GHG Powers After Landmark Rulings

June 27, 2022
The Supreme Court appears poised to constrict EPA’s authority to address climate-warming emissions from the power sector, observers say, after a series of monumental decisions in the past few days that have scrapped long-standing precedents, including its ruling reversing its five-decade precedent granting women a constitutional right to abortion. But even if the court crafts a relatively narrow ruling in the pending climate case, known as West Virginia v. EPA -- which could be issued as soon as June...


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