High Court Climate Decision Renews Calls For Congressional Action

The Supreme Court’s ruling citing the major questions doctrine to place new limits on EPA’s ability to curb power plant greenhouse gases is reinvigorating calls for Congress take its own steps to curb emissions as many see the ruling broadly hampering the agency’s activities. However, it remains unclear if Congress will be able to take such steps, with any action over the short term likely reliant on whether Democrats can secure a long-stalled budget reconciliation deal with significant low-carbon energy...