Environment Groups Find Less Support on Court

posted Saturday, 4 July 2009

The court allowed Navy exercises using sonar that threatened whales off California. It limited the liability of companies partly responsible for toxic spills. It made it harder to challenge Forest Service regulations and easier to dump mining waste into an Alaskan lake. And it allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to use cost-benefit analysis to decide how much marine life may be killed by cooling structures at power plants.

However, the article notes that the SCOTUS also has seen an expansion of Presidential powers, meaning that it is now up to the President to reverse these unfavorable rulings. The ball is now in Obama's court. I would also note that should Congress fail to pass a meaningful Climate Change bill this year, that would trigger stringent environmental regulations from the EPA that would be much less business friendly than they would have been had Congress passed a bill of their own.

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Environment Groups Find Less Support on Court