The Supreme Court has given a hand to President Biden’s plans to tackle climate change by limiting the government’s power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
In an 6-3 ideological defeat yesterday, Conservative judges ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to regulate emissions of polluting gases from power plants that contribute to global warming. . The ruling is a disaster for the Biden administration, which has pledged to halve U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade and achieve a carbon-free electricity sector by 2035.
Biden called the ruling, which follows last week ‘s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and with it the constitutional right to abortion, “another devastating decision.