In a major setback for President Obama and for people who like to breathe, the court (in a 5-4 decision split along party lines) struck down a set of recent EPA regulations aimed at limiting pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The justices embraced the arguments from the industry and 21 Republican-led states that the EPA rules were prohibitively expensive and amounted to government overreach.
The decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, ruled that the EPA did not reasonably consider the cost factor when drafting regulation.
The Clean Air Act had directed the EPA to create regulations for power plants that were "appropriate and necessary". The agency did not consider cost when making its decision, the court ruled, but estimated that the cost of its regulation to power plants would be $9.6bn a year.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by PocketSizeSUn on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:44AM
Not sure what the plan is here, but I'm pretty sure the inmates are running the asylum. Again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:58AM
No plan, the inmates are too innate defective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @05:37PM
No, there's a plan alright - "Profit as much as possible, no matter the cost to everyone who isn't us"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:23AM
Exactly! A second very stupid SCOTUS decision on SN front page today... fucking imbeciles...