Source: Benjamin J. Hulac, ROLL CALL, 6/30/22

Democrats in Washington saw their climate action options dwindle Thursday as the Supreme Court diminished the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority ruled the agency does not possess broad authority to regulate pollution from electric utilities. The court’s three liberals disagreed, writing in a dissent that the majority had denuded the agency of “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.”

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