Like last Friday, when a historic judgment abolished the right to abortion, six judges spoke in favor of this decision, while three voted against.
On Thursday, June 30, “the United States Supreme Court has limited the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions from coal plants”, announcement The New York Times in his live. A decision that represents “a blow to the Biden administration’s plan to work against global warming”, estimates the American daily. Even more severe, the three liberal judges opposed to this decision declared that the Supreme Court had thus taken away from this independent federal agency “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time”.
This could have serious consequences for the rest of the planet, since “the United States is the second largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases”, note from his side The Washington Post.
Specifically, explain The Wall Street Journal, conservative Supreme Court justices held that “federal agencies [avaient] require explicit authorization from Congress to decide crucial economic and political issues”. A matter of “democracy” in a way, since the Congress is a body elected by direct universal suffrage, and the mission of ruling on questions of such importance should fall to its members.
However, in the Democratic camp, this third controversial decision of the judges in such a short time does not pass, and this discomfort was expressed loud and clear by the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in these terms:
“In just two weeks, the Supreme Court has acted to take away reproductive freedom, it has flooded our public places with deadly weapons, and now it’s letting our planet burn.”