EPA Lost Big at the Supreme Court This Term. There’s More to Come.

E&E News by POLITICO  by Pamela King

The Supreme Court is taking aim at EPA’s ability to stop pollution and curb climate change — even in cases that don’t directly involve the agency.

In one of the biggest cases this term, the justices struck down the Chevron doctrine, a powerful legal tool that for 40 years had helped federal regulators defend their rules in court. The high court also reached out through its emergency docket to halt EPA controls on smog-forming pollution that wafts across state lines.

The decisions built upon prior losses for EPA in major climate and water cases over the last two years, as well as other rulings this term that tamped down the authority of federal regulators to craft rules for the rest of the nation to follow.

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