The landmark ruling curbs federal power to limit greenhouse gas emissions in a setback for President Biden.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
They were challenging whether the agency has the power to regulate planet-warming emissions for state-wide power sectors or just individual power plants. Environmental groups will be deeply concerned by the outcome as historically the 19 states have made little progress on reducing their emissions - which is necessary to limit climate change.
On his first day in office he re-entered the country into the Paris Agreement, the first legally-binding universal agreement on climate change targets. A United Nations spokesman called it "a setback in our fight against climate change" but added that no single nation could derail the global effort.
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