Environmentalists Strategize To Shore Up EPA Power After West Virginia

Environmental attorneys are strategizing to help shore up EPA’s statutory authority following the Supreme Court’s June ruling curtailing EPA’s statutory authority under the “major questions” doctrine. There is “deep thinking going on in the community about what information needs to be before the agency” in light of the importance major questions took in West Virginia v. EPA , Earthjustice attorney Kirtki Datla told a Sept. 20 Institute for Policy Integrity event. She called the high court’s holding that the ill-defined...