'Frightening': US Supreme Court deals major blow to federal climate action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : However, some commentators stressed that despite the setback there still remained pathways for ambitious CO2 limits and climate policy to be introduced in the US, while the economics and market realities were still stacked in favour of clean energy over fossil fuels in the medium and long-term.
49% :"Now, EPA must forge ahead and issue new standards that require each of the nation's remaining coal and gas plants to minimize their pollution to the greatest extent possible," he said.
48% : Conservative majority on the Court strikes down Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate CO2 from US power plants under Clean Air ActThe US Supreme Court has today ruled the federal government and its agencies do not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, in a landmark opinion that experts warn could have major ramifications for government-led climate action.
47% : The case concerned the President Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have instructed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose CO2 limits on power stations by exercising federal regulatory powers under the existing Clean Air Act.
37% : Writing the opinion to the ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts - who was appointed to the Court in 2005 under the Bush administration - stated that "it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority" to adopt its own regulatory scheme on power plant CO2 emissions.

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