SCOTUS and the EPA: I Hope This is Just the Beginning of the End

By Rich Kozlovich

Jun 30, 2022 Ed Morrissey posted this article, BREAKING: SCOTUS rebukes EPA on climate-change regulation, 6-3 -- but sides with Biden on immigration, saying:

First and likely more importantly in terms of policy, Roberts led a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v EPA that has significant repercussions for agency jurisdiction. The court ruled that the EPA could not use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions without a more specific grant of that authority from Congress, although Roberts kept the decision as narrow as he could........not only did Congress not specifically authorize the EPA to regulate carbon emissions in the manner they planned in their Clean Power Plan, Congress explicitly rejected such proposals:

Let's understand this.  This isn't just about CO2, it's about administrative law.  Where in the Constitution does it allow for Congress to delegate it's authority to bureaucrats giving them unbridled power to impose regulations that carry the weight of law, when there is no law to support these impositions, and no oversight by Congress?

The isn't the only law they've massively abused via new interpretations, re-interpretations and outright lies about America's air quality (which Steve Milloy has challenged over and over again) all done by green activists infesting the agencies overseeing environmental regulations.  

The has also been turned into a bludgeon against the American people, and if you doubt it, ask the Sacketts who've been fighting the EPA over their egregious actions since 2011, which I've tracked all these years, and even after the courts sided with the Sacketts EPA bureaucrats still came after them.  The Sacketts: You Cannot Have This EPA and a Constitution. 

• Federal Agencies Like EPA Have Grown ‘Too Powerful, Because Congress Didn’t Do Its Job’

Junk science, secret science, and ozone issues.  All need to be addressed, and the best way to address all these issues is as it exists in its current state.  Since the inception of EPA, under administrations of of both parties, the EPA, and all these types of agencies are nothing more than spear points of politics, not science.  In 2016 Henry Miller and Jeff Stier state:

The Environmental Protection Agency has been a paragon of waste, fraud, and abuse, a corrupt taxpayer-funded Evil Empire. "Science" there is just a tool to be manipulated in order to advance radical anti-technology and anti-industry agendas, even if it means distorting the intent of statutes and affronting common sense.

The EPA is the prototype of agencies that, driven largely by politics, spend more and more to address smaller and smaller risks. In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17. For example, the agency's restrictions on the disposal of land that contains certain wastes prevent 0.59 cancer cases per year — about three cases every five years — and avoid $20 million in property damage, at an annual cost of $194 to $219 million.

My friend Dr. Jay Lehr, one of the founders of EPA, has a great deal to say, noting that although the EPA may have been instrumental in the ‘70s for establishing clean water and air they got out of control, observing:

“During that decade we did a terrific job”............. “However in the ‘80s that work was complete and then the pendulum swung. Environmental advocacy groups saw the environment as a way to promote big government and liberal ideas that reduced individual freedom, and threw a monkey wrench in the path of progress and capitalism.”

“Quite frankly, US EPA has done nothing useful since 1980, and is, in my opinion, the worst agency today in the federal government and one that could be disbanded with no negative impact on the public. Each state has their own EPA and they do a good enough job that we really don’t need them anymore."

How strongly does Jay Lehr feel about this?  He has put together a five year plan to abolish the EPA, an effort that's long overdue.  

While SCOTUS got a lot right this year, they've clearly failed in much over the last two years, especially regarding their refusal to review and adjudicate the massive voter fraud that brought this corrupt administration into power, and now they've failed the nation over illegal immigration, so this will have to be addressed by Congress, but it most likely won't happen until after the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2025 and Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025.