New shot of the ax of the Supreme Court which in the last sentence handed down placed a limit on the powers of the Federal Environment Agency in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions. Following a lawsuit filed by a group of Republican states, along with some large coal companies, the Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. By a vote of 6-3, with a majority of conservators, the supreme judges ruled that the environment agency cannot set general limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants that produce 20% of all electricity. of the United States.
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The ruling could complicate the administration’s plans to combat climate change. Biden aims, in fact, to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade and to have an energy sector without them by 2035. The judges heard the arguments of the case on the same day that a report by the Nations Unite has denounced that the effects of climate change are worsening and will make the Earth sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the coming years.
The case of power plants began with the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The plan would have required states to reduce emissions from electricity generation by abandoning coal-fired power plants. But it never came into effect following a lawsuit brought by several states, mostly republican-led. The Supreme Court blocked it in 2016 with a 5-4 vote, with Conservatives in the majority.
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Despite the suspension, the legal struggle continued. But with the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency repealed the Obama administration’s plan. The agency argued that its authority to reduce carbon emissions was limited and came up with a new plan that dramatically reduced the federal government’s role in the matter. New York, 21 other predominantly Democratic states, the District of Columbia, and some of the nation’s largest cities have sued Trump’s plan. The Federal Court of Appeals in Washington ruled against the repeal and the new plan, leaving a void that the new administration tried to fill by working out a new policy.
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