Christine Todd Whitman says the Court is pushing a political agenda
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not have the power to regulate power plant emissions will seriously hamper U.S. efforts to slow climate change. So says Christine Todd Whitman, who served as EPA administrator under George W. Bush for three years, and was New Jersey’s first woman governor. Whitman says the ruling will also kill worldwide confidence in U.S.
Is the Court being naive, or is it calculating that there will be no effective regulations if left up to Congress? After the power plant ruling you tweeted: “The Supreme Court decision handed down today assigns the responsibility of deciding what’s best for human health to the Congress, which has no clue on how to analyze scientific data.” Are we losing the ability to use science to inform policy in the U.S.?Between 2016 and 2020, the EPA lost 672 scientific experts.
Do you worry about the attorneys general in some red states being emboldened by the Court ruling to challenge other EPA regulations?
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