Glory Of Man

Flora on rocks Sun, Paul Klee

This decision is SHOCKING in its breadth. It guts environmental protection (basically ruling that the EPA cannot issue regulation on *anything* that it does not have explicit statuatory authority on) but does much more.

By elevating/codifying the "major questions" doctrine, the decision makes it nearly impossible for agencies to regulate with any confidence, from the EPA to the CDC to OSHA. And it throws basically every regulatory decision of the last several decades open to challenge.

Private industry is about to have a fucking feeding frenzy.

TLDR: In short if the EPA finds that a chemical that is getting dumped into the water gives you cancer they can't regulate it. They need congress to pass a law to ban it. IE people get to die so corporations can do whatever they want. They need to ban it one. Chemical. At. A. Time.

6/30/2022