Experts Weigh Chevron’s Future After High Court’s West Virginia Ruling

Legal experts are debating the future of the Chevron doctrine -- which had long granted EPA and other agencies discretion to interpret ambiguous statutory language -- in the wake of the Supreme Court’s elevation of the major questions doctrine as the basis for its decision constraining EPA’s greenhouse gas authority. Some, like West Virginia Solicitor General Lindsay See (R) and Lisa Heinzerling, a former Obama EPA policy chief now at Georgetown law, said at separate events to discuss the...