This month, the Supreme Court will announce its ruling in West Virginia v. EPA—a case that could undermine the federal government's very ability to fight the climate crisis.
The Clean Air Act—and hundreds of agency actions that are essential to our everyday lives and our clean energy future—are in jeopardy.
With their stolen supermajority, conservatives on the Supreme Court could overturn 50 years of precedent and rule that the executive branch—including the EPA—has no authority to regulate beyond what is explicitly written into legislation.
This means that instead of agencies having the power to develop rules, Congress would have to vote on every action that each federal agency takes.