The supreme court of the United States has failed to limit the authority of the government Environmental protection agency (EPA) to regulate the emissions of polluting gases emitted by power plants. In a sentence written by the president of the court, John Robertsand supported by the other five conservative judges, the highest judicial body in the country considered that the law of Clean Air it does not give the EPA broad authority to regulate emissions from plants already built.
An involution of rights possible thanks to the control of the Supreme Court by the most conservative, which allows it to impose itself, even above the Joe Biden government. LaSexta has spoken with Pedro RodrÃguez, professor of International Relations at the University of Comillaswho affirms that “what we are seeing are the effects of national populism and the cultural war”.
For Bidenthe Supreme Court does not stop taking steps backwards: “The only destabilizing thing in the United States is the scandalous behavior of the Supreme Court,” he declared.
The leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, criticized the decision of the Supreme Court, comparing it to the sentence that eliminated the legal protection of the abortionand considering that “it will cause more unnecessary deaths -in this case due to an increase in pollution“.
For his part, the Republican leader in the Upper House, Mitch McConnell, celebrated that the sentence “gives power back to the people”, an argument similar to that used to praise the abortion sentence, which does not prohibit the medical termination of pregnancy but rather gives states the power to regulate it. The three progressive judges of the Supreme issued a dissenting opinion in which they criticize that the court “takes away from the EPA the power that Congress gave it to respond to the ‘greatest environmental challenge of our time'”, citing another previous sentence. You can obtain more information in the video that accompanies this news.
Source: Lasexta
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