An amicus brief has been filed against the agency. Bottom line: the purpose of the Clean Air Act was to deal with local air-quality issues, not mythical global ones. The SCOTUS’s previous ruling was a terrible one, based on what can now be seen to be junk science.
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I haven’t read the Amicus brief, but this is just silly on the face of it.
The EPA like many federal agencies operates under the Commerce Clause of the constitution.
If Air Quality is a local matter, the local authorities or the state have the power to address this.
The Feds come in because this affects Interstate Commerce, or may even affect Foreign Relations.
The Feds aren’t supposed to address local problems.
I haven’t read the Amicus brief…
Then why should anyone care about your ignorant opinion about it?
While I agree with you that the EPA overstepped its bounds in regards to associating the Clean Air Act with the issues of climate change, I can assure you that climatologists (i.e. people with advanced college degrees in studying the climate) do not consider global warming to be a myth. While the cause of global warming (i.e. human activity vs. natural deviation) may yet to be determined, its results are a foregone scientific fact.