Commentary: States and the EPA can still regulate greenhouse gases, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling
by Michael B. Gerrard, Los Angeles Times
Jul 11, 2022
3 minutes
Last month's decision by the Supreme Court striking down the Clean Power Plan is a blow to the fight against climate change, but it’s not a total knockout. Other existing laws protecting the environment are untouched by the decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. The broad powers of state and local governments to set stringent environmental standards are similarly unaffected.
In 2007 the Supreme Court declared in a landmark decision, Massachusetts v. EPA, that the Clean Air Act empowers the agency to regulate greenhouse
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