The Supreme Court, with its 6–3 conservative majority, could use the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency to hamper the E.P.A.’s ability to regulate carbon emissions at all.
There were two front-page-worthy developments on Monday in the world of climate policy. Perhaps even more significant than either one was the fact that they were at cross-purposes.—noon in central Europe—the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest warning to humanity. The group released aon climate “impacts, adaptation and vulnerability,” which ran to more than thirty-five hundred pages.
Plants and animals, too, are being pushed much faster than they can adapt. According to the report, “hundreds of local losses of species” can be traced to climate change, as can “mass mortality events” both on land and in the oceans. The prognosis for forests, coral reefs, and low-lying coastal wetlands is bleak. “Damages to and transformation of ecosystems are already key risks for every region due to past global warming and will continue to escalate,” the report observes.
At the heart of West Virginia v. E.P.A. is a set of regulations that never went into effect. The regulations, known collectively as the Clean Power Plan, were finalized by the E.P.A. in 2015, under President, with the aim of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants by roughly a third compared with 2005 levels. To achieve this aim, the C.P.P. imposed emissions targets that each state would have to meet.
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