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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.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @10:23AM
Your argument started with "only the US...", so it does matter what other countries do because it both makes your argument wrong and you an idiot.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Wednesday July 01 2015, @04:20AM
Your argument started with "only the US...", so it does matter what other countries do because it both makes your argument wrong and you an idiot.
Only the US shares borders with both Canada and Mexico. Only the US has this many prisoners. Only the US spends this much total money on its military. Only the US has the biggest GDP of any country. Only the US has sent a man to walk on the moon.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.