Supreme Court Blocks Major EPA Rule On Air Pollution

The New York Times reports:

The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment.

The ruling followed recent decisions chipping away at the agency’s authority to address climate change and water pollution.

The ruling was provisional, and challenges to the plan will continue to be litigated in an appeals court and could then return to the Supreme Court. But even the temporary loss for the administration will suspend the plan for many months and maybe longer. The vote was 5 to 4. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by the court’s three liberal members, dissented.

Read the full article. Gorsuch, whose mother headed the EPA under Reagan, wrote the ruling.

NEW: Voting 5-4, the US Supreme Court blocked a Biden administration rule that would mean stringent new emissions requirements on power plants and pipelines in parts of the country to stem ozone pollution that wanders into downwind states.

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