‘Blockbuster’ Case Threatens EPA’s Climate Action, Rule Delays

The Supreme Court’s decision to consider limits on the scope of EPA’s climate authority could quell agency power to stem carbon emissions while climate policy remains stalled in Congress, observers say.

Some legal experts were skeptical that the justices would pick up the group of four petitions, but Friday’s decision to weigh in puts the hotly-contested question of Clean Air Act authority on power plant greenhouse gases once again on the highest bench.

“This is probably the biggest climate case on the Supreme Court’s docket in a decade,” McGuireWoods LLP partner Allison Wood told Bloomberg Law.

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