'It appears that Republicans on the Supreme Court are preparing to light our planet on fire.'
The"novel" argument that a group of Republican states' Attorneys General are advancing, and Neil Gorsuch has already endorsed in a lower court ruling before he was placed on the Court, is breathtaking. It could end most protective government regulations in America.
In other words, Gorsuch says, Congress itself—not the EPA—must evaluate the science and then write the rules. But Gorsuch has argued, essentially, that making rules—even the detailed scientific minutiae of rules—should be done by Congress instead of the EPA, and that agencies like the EPA should simply play the role of cops on the beat, enforcing those rules.This would cripple virtually every regulatory agency in Washington, DC, from the EPA to the FCC to OSHA.