after abortion, the Supreme Court attacks the climate power of the federal state – Liberation

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–In a new decision of rupture, the Court considerably undermined the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, hated by Republicans. Enough to torpedo Joe Biden’s climate ambitions and pave the way for a wave of deregulation.–

After the June 24 earthquake, the eradication of constitutional protection for abortion, comes the aftershock. A new decision by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court which, this time, consecrates the destruction of the environmental policy of the Biden government and de facto, the despairing withdrawal of the United States from its role as leader in the fight against global warming.

On Thursday, the Court delivered its verdict on a dispute between the State of West Virginia and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which amounts to prohibiting this essential administration from imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants, which alone account for a third of greenhouse gas emissions. Beyond even the fatal blow inflicted on the Democratic program, which relied on these regulations to accelerate the transition of the gigantic American electricity network towards renewable energies on the horizon of 2035, the ideological diktat of si…

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