The Supreme Court appears eager to gut the EPA, but can’t figure out how to do it
VoxAPR 2022
The market-driven closure of hundreds of coal plants has already achieved the aims of Obama's Clean Power Plan and the Biden administration has no intention to go forward with it. This appeal is nothing more than an attempt to hobble Biden's climate change policies and risks weakening regulatory efforts in a vast range of sectors - it should be dismissed.
The EPA wants to force the power industry to reorganize the entire energy grid, which will cost billions of dollars. The court must bring legislative and regulatory powers back to Congress and the states, or it risks allowing the EPA to continue with consolidated powers so vast James Madison may well have recognized it as tyrannous.
Renewables and fossil fuel reductions are important, but the world isn't ready yet. Nations are trying to pivot to green energy, but weather and COVID surged demand and fossil fuels must now make up for what renewables can't deliver. We are necessarily still reliant on non-renewable forms of energy.