Curbing federal authority over carbon emissions reductions and increasing heat waves will have a cascading effect on the most vulnerable communities, says the activist of environmental justice.
The legal doctrine that the conservative justices used to strike down an EPA regulation in late June is popping up in a host of new legal challenges — including many having nothing to do with climate change.
Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative cohorts ruled against an obsolete EPA plan to create a new but largely undefined doctrine that federal judges across the country will use to stymie all manner of federal agency rulemaking.
