RawNews1st -Restraining the Powers of Federal Agencies – EPA Overreach
“What does a case involving the Clean Air Act have to do with restraining federal agencies? In the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, the court found that the agency had exceeded its statutory powers.
But that was not all. What started as a question of whether or not the EPA’s plan to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from the electric grid was constitutional ⏤ turned into a statement about the limits of discretion granted to executive agencies …
Since passage of the [Clean Air] Act 50 years ago, EPA has exercised this authority by setting performance standards based on measures that would reduce pollution by causing plants to operate more cleanly.
In 2015, however, EPA issued a new rule concluding that the ‘best system of emission reduction’ for existing coal-fired power plants included a requirement that such facilities reduce their own production of electricity.”
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