'Time is not on our side when it comes to climate change.' Chief meteorologist ginger_zee breaks down the Supreme Court's ruling that limits the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and how that impacts the fight against climate change.
Roughly 90% of West Virginia's electricity is generated by burning coal, well above the national average of less than a quarter coal-powered energy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.The case involved how far the federal government could go in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
"…Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible 'solution to the crisis of the day.' But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111 [of the Clean Air Act]," Roberts wrote.
The landmark Clean Air Act of 1970 charged EPA with protecting human health from dangerous airborne contaminants, which the Supreme Court has twice affirmed to include greenhouse gasses. The U.S. power sector is the nation's second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions with more than 3,300 fossil fuel-fired power plants, including 284 coal-fired facilities, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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