In a 6-3 ideological defeat yesterday, conservative justice ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have the power to regulate pollutant emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. The decision is a disaster for the Biden administration, which has pledged to halve America’s greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade and reach a coal-fired power sector by 2035. Biden called last week’s decision to overthrow Roe v Wade, and with it the constitutional right to abortion, “another catastrophic decision.
