Guns, abortion, climate: how a new US Supreme Court ruling could threaten the planet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Known as the Clean Power Plan, this was designed to encourage greater investment by states and utility companies in renewable energy.
58% : It should not, they argue, be allowed to push power companies to shift towards renewable energy more generally.
57% : The case of West Virginia vs The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is likely to be heard today (30 June).
56% : For instance, his reconciliation bill could put billions of dollars into renewable energy expansion, but it is stuck in Congress and its chances of passing before the midterm elections, when things could get even harder for Biden, are decreasing.
50% : "As with Roe vs Wade, which was not about abortion but about control over women, a broad decision is about control over the economy," says Professor Rachel Kyte, an energy and international affairs expert at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
50% : "We are already experiencing the effects of the climate crisis and things will only get worse if we do not take aggressive action and invest in a moonshot for renewable energy."
48% : The EPA could also still tighten regulation on emissions standards for vehicles and crack down on the methane released by oil and gas development.
47% : The EPA could probably still lower emissions by making energy companies adopt aggressive (and expensive) energy efficiency measures at individual power plants, thereby making renewable energy investment more attractive by default, explains Andres Restrepo, a senior attorney with the Sierra Club, an environmental NGO.
43% : The Supreme Court's ruling on abortion was a "step along the dark political path" the US appears to be taking, Jeremy Cliffe wrote this week.

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