Ginsburg Vacancy Could Reset Legal, Political Battles Over Environment

The sudden Supreme Court vacancy opened by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death is heightening questions about the future legal fate of environmental protections and starting a political battle amid early signs the fight could help environmentalists bolster the focus on climate and environmental issues in the 2020 election. Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, was not only a key vote in the 5-4 ruling from 2007 in Massachusetts v. EPA ruling backing EPA’s greenhouse gas regulatory authority but authored other...