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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Noa Yachot

How a court case over pollution could be used to unravel federal regulatory power

A coal-fired power plant with tall smokestacks is silhouetted against a golden yellow morning sky, as dark clouds of smoke or steam rise up from the left of the image.
The court’s conservatives may use West Virginia v EPA as a preemptive strike against environmental regulation, some legal scholars say. Photograph: J David Ake/AP

On Monday the US supreme court will hear arguments in a group of cases that could have an immediate impact on the American government’s ability to respond to the climate emergency.

The consequences could be even more substantial, however, reaching deep into the Biden administration’s authority to govern.

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