300,000+ Criminal Regulations Is Enough Already: Supreme Court Puts Brakes on Bureaucratic Overreach

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300,000+ Criminal Regulations Is Enough Already: Supreme Court Puts Brakes on Bureaucratic Overreach​

 

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300,000+ Criminal Regulations Is Enough Already: Supreme Court Puts Brakes on Bureaucratic Overreach

The Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v EPA delivered a major blow to the federal bureaucracy and may transform th

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WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade it was easy to miss, but the court's ruling in West Virginia v. EPA delivered a major blow to the federal bureaucracy.

The case considered the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. President Obama couldn't get his plan to drastically change the nation's power grid known as "Cap and Trade" through Congress, so he famously acted on his own.

Working through the EPA on executive authority he expanded the Clean Air Act, written in the 1960s, to reduce toxic emissions. Instead of addressing individual power plants as the law had been applied, Obama went after the entire fossil fuel industry in a way that would have transformed the U.S. power grid, and for that, the Supreme Court called a foul.