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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval.
This is a major blow to the Koch Brothers, who have been waging war on the EPA for more than 20 years, in an effort to gut that agency. The SCOTUS decison does limit the EPA in the permitting process in that it cannot deny permits based on global warming pollutants alone, but the global warming pollutant regulations that power plants must abide by are left intact, and the power industry is expected to follow these laws or else.
This is good, because no matter what the shills say, the science on global warming is in, and the USA is following that science, as well as demonstrating to the world that it intends to be a leader on this issue, and not a sideline watcher participating in "crackpot science" in an effort to deny the obvious.
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