by Nick Pope at Daily Caller Foundation
The Supreme Court issued a major ruling Friday that curbs the power of the administrative state, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Biden climate agenda being among the decision’s biggest losers.
The highest court in the land ruled by a 6-3 vote to overturn a legal theory that gives unelected bureaucrats greater powers in its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn that legal theory, known as Chevron deference, will have massive implications for some of the Biden EPA’s signature regulations and for the agency moving forward, according to environmental law experts and former EPA personnel who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The new legal environment could cause problems for signature Biden EPA rules, such as power plant emissions reduction regulations and tailpipe standards that will aggressively shift the American auto market toward electric vehicles over the next decade.
Formerly one of the most important theories in administrative law, Chevron deference held that courts should generally defer to federal agencies’ interpretation of statutory ambiguities, according to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “Chevron is overruled” and that “courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the [Administrative Procedure Act (APA)] requires.” (RELATED: Looks Like Pretty Much Every Left-Wing Group Is Hellbent On Defending The Administrative State)…
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