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US Supreme Court hobbles the EPA’s authority over climate emissions

Legal ruling limits the environmental agency’s regulatory powers, hamstringing Biden’s climate plan.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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The US Supreme Court has limited the regulatory tools that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can use to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, dealing a massive blow to US President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. Academics and environmentalists lamented the loss of authority, as well as the precedent that it could set for the EPA — and potentially for other US agencies trying to tackle important societal issues in innovative ways.

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Nature 607, 222-223 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01796-8

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