In recent rulings, the Supreme Court added obstacles to the government’s ability to regulate air pollution, water pollution and the greenhouse gases that are heating Earth.
The decisions could empower conservative judges throughout the country to block even more environmental regulations.
You know, if I was to start up a coal fire furnace in my backyard and smoke up the neighborhood every weekend someone would complain and the police would come. Yet if states do it its just tough luck.
so much for the social contract? isn't the entire point of citizens allowing themselves to be governed - that the govt protect and provide for the needs of its citizens?
I remember early in Biden’s term there was all this pearl clutching about how Biden might ‘pack the court’ to override the conservative majority… Now we know why it was so important to them to prevent that… so SCOTUS could finalize the United States of Oligarchy project started under Reagan