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Supreme Court rules against EPA in carbon emissions regulation case

Published June 30, 2022 at 9:06 AM PDT

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. The decision was 6-3.

Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with James M. Van Nostrand, law professor and director of the Center for Energy & Sustainable Development at West Virginia University College of Law.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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