What does the new US Supreme Court ruling mean for carbon emissions? | New Scientist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : A number of coal companies and coal-producing states, led by West Virginia, petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider the circuit court's decision.
46% : The decision comes on the heels of several explosive decisions from the court, including the decisions to expand gun rights and to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that protected the right to abortion.
43% : The dissenting justices, citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's dire assessments of the impacts of climate change, wrote the ruling "deprives EPA of the power needed - and the power granted - to curb the emission of greenhouse gases."
42% : The decision in West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency says the EPA does not have the authority to control greenhouse gas emissions from power production by requiring changes to power production across entire electrical grids.
37% : On 30 June, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that could set back efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate other environmental issues.

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