{"id":142786,"date":"2022-07-24T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-crisis-of-the-day-stated-the-u-s-supreme-court-when-ruling-against-the-epas-oversight-of-the-environment"},"modified":"2022-07-24T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:03:07","slug":"the-crisis-of-the-day-stated-the-u-s-supreme-court-when-ruling-against-the-epas-oversight-of-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-crisis-of-the-day-stated-the-u-s-supreme-court-when-ruling-against-the-epas-oversight-of-the-environment","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Crisis of the Day\u201d Stated the U.S. Supreme Court When Ruling Against the EPA\u2019s Oversight of the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-crisis-of-the-day-stated-the-u-s-supreme-court-when-ruling-against-the-epas-oversight-of-the-environment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time climate change was only beginning to be talked about in the scientific community as well as behind the scenes among researchers working for fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change fit the EPA\u2019s mandate. And unlike an oil or chemical spill, no reputable scientist would see climate change as equivalent to <em><strong>\u201cthe crisis of the day.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>But this phrase appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/06\/supreme-court-curtails-epas-authority-to-fight-climate-change\/\">Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 opinion<\/a> justifying the decision in West Virginia v. EPA to deny the Agency its power to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants which based on the mandated powers described above is its purview (see points 3, 4, and 5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time climate change was only beginning to be talked about in the scientific community as well as behind the scenes among researchers working for fossil fuel companies. Climate change fit the EPA\u2019s mandate. And unlike an oil or chemical spill, no reputable scientist would see climate change as equivalent to \u201cthe crisis of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}