Do states and environmental groups have standing to sue EPA?
(To show legal standing, states had to show they would be harmed by the excess global warming that would occur without EPA regulations. This was the real sticking point, and it was at the center of the conservative justices’ dissent.) Verdict: Yes. Does the EPA have the right to regulate CO2 emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act? Verdict: Yes. Can the EPA choose not to regulate CO2 emissions at its own discretion? Verdict: The court told EPA to … reconsider its claim that it has that discretion. Said majority opinion writer Justice John Paul Stevens: “EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change.” The court also disparaged what it called EPA’s “laundry list” of stupid reasons why it shouldn’t so regulate. In effect, the court put enormous pressure on EPA to regulate. This is a huge, huge deal. The proximate effect is that California’s pioneering efforts against climate change are safe from
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