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US Supreme Court Strikes Down New Anti-Pollution Rules

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 30 2015, @05:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-a-walk-in-the-park dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Quoth the Guardian:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @05:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @05:34PM (#203385)

    "No one cares more about the air we breathe and the water we drink than the people who live here in along the Ohio River. However, there must be a balance between health regulation and excessive costs that would have a chilling impact on coal jobs and the cost of electricity in eastern and southeastern Ohio," [said Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio].

    Its too expensive to properly dispose of this nuclear waste, therefore we'll just dump it into the river. After all, if its deemed "too expensive" by our company, that means we can just ignore it! Horray for precedents set after regulatory capture and bought representatives!