Six days after burying a judgment which guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion, this controversial decision constitutes a new conservative turn of the screw on the part of the jurisdiction.
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This decision could have a heavy impact on global warming. The highest jurisdiction of the United States decided, Thursday, June 30, to limit the means of the federal State to fight against greenhouse gases.
Its six conservative judges ruled, against the advice of their three progressive colleagues, that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could not enact general rules to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants, which produce nearly 20% of electricity in the United States. Enough to leave the different states of the country the right to enact their own rules in this area.
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“Putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions at a level that would require a nationwide move away from coal to generate electricity might be a relevant solution to today’s crisis. But it is not plausible that the Congress gave the EPA the authority to enact such a measure.”writes Judge John Roberts in this judgment.
“Today, the Court stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of the authority Congress gave it to respond to the ‘the most pressing problem of our time’“denounces in a separate argument the magistrate Elena Kagan on behalf of progressives, recalling that the six hottest years have been recorded during the last decade.
This controversial decision constitutes a new conservative turn of the screw on the part of the Supreme Court. On Friday, the highest American court had buried a judgment which, for nearly half a century, guaranteed the right of American women to have an abortion. In the process, several American states had announced that they were taking measures to prohibit voluntary terminations of pregnancy on their territory. This decision had caused a worldwide emotion among defenders of women’s rights.