Thursday, June 30, 2022

I struggle for words for this majority of the Supreme Court except stupidity. Corrupt is another good word.

There is nothing here that is malicious. All actions to combat the climate crisis is a benevolent act. 

The global community needs to come up with a strategy to end the greenhouse gas emissions in the USA. The global community should minimize exporting any commodity to the USA that produces greenhouse gases. Tariffs need to be leveraged against the USA of these products. Trade restrictions for not limiting and ending greenhouse gas production by the enormous consumer base of the USA must be part of the strategy. 

The idea the USA is not a leader to end a climate catastrophe is unconscionalbe. What can be done is for states in the USA can still lead. Trade relations with states of the USA can bring about change. California has very aggressive climate policies and it should not be punished by the global community. The global community should work with the states to end the pollution of greenhouse gases.

June 30, 2022

The Supreme Court on Thursday (click here) limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to address climate change.

The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal justices in dissent, saying that the majority had stripped the E.P.A. of “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.”

The ruling appeared to curtail the agency’s ability to regulate the energy sector, limiting it to measures like emission controls at individual power plants and, unless Congress acts, ruling out more ambitious approaches like a cap-and-trade system at a time when experts are issuing increasingly dire warnings about the quickening pace of global warming....