"CCL submits a formal comment on EPA’s proposed endangerment finding rollback" By Dana
I understand that regulations by the Executive can be quickly overturned while legislation is longer lasting. In fact, I joined CCL in 2016 for just this reason. "Our representatives have done their jobs by passing legislation over the past many decades that supports and further codifies the EPA’s mandate to regulate climate pollution."
Applauses for CCL. But I get the threat from the current reshaping of EPA. In fact, I'd add that years ago, Robert Redford commented that the EPA should be renamed the Environmental Defense Department. Why? Because we're more at danger with natural repercussions of adhoc development than we are from other countries. Always made sense to me!!!
Also CCL (at the time) was the only 501C3 that specifically was about Climate Change (and no other environmental issue.) I'm not writing about that actually but I get concerned when CCL strays into other (somewhat related) issues. Aren't we watering down OUR message?
But I digress. Sorry. Anyway, I don't quite understand the federal process (obviously) and would ask more about this statement. "After the EPA responds to the public comment record and finalizes its decision, this issue will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court several years from now. "
Once EPA finalizes changes to regulations, are you saying that, even then - the changes will not go into effect until after the law suits are settled?
Hi @Bill Hurley. You can read more about the potential outcome scenarios in my Yale article, but the short answer is that the EPA will unwind its climate pollution regulations in the meantime while the case proceeds through the appeals process up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decision will determine the long-term fate of EPA climate pollution regulations – whether they're permanently barred, will continue to oscillate between administrations, or whether such regulations will be legally mandated once again.
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