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Supreme Court should end “Chevron deference” to restore checks, balances and reality 

It is incumbent upon the Senate to finally assess Mr. Goffman’s record before re-joining the agency, what he did and did not disclose about that record, and how it is possible he has remained involved in a key item for...

“In sum, we hold that the CWA [Clean Water Act] extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right,” so that they are “indistinguishable”...

DOE wasn’t then and still isn’t now playing by the rules  to expand their regulatory domain over appliance efficiency  (and/or they change the rules as they deem fit on the go)...

Enormous setback for the fanatics at the EPA who would regulate ever puddle or ditch they could find.

This ruling is being touted by the Climatariat as a "blow to oil companies"... In fact, it is nothing more than a "narrow, procedural decision".

In making his argument, Lazarus adopted the now-familiar debate tactic of accusing the opposing side of doing exactly what he and his side are doing, namely creating regulatory czars and, in the process, bypassing the country’s...

...several agencies promptly doubled down on efforts to strangle the oil and gas industries with regulatory restrictions, essentially daring the courts or anyone else to stop them

Of the three decisions discussed, the one likely to have the most far-reaching impact is West Virginia

The decision is a very welcome reaffirmation of the Constitutional rights of citizens of the United State

Fresh off the heels of the Roe vs. Wade decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) just neutered the runaway powers the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

What the court decides will have huge implications for the scope of federal administrative power and climate change policy.

The question on Tuesday in Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. actually has nothing to do with climate change, but is jurisdictional. Nonetheless, by settling whether these cases may be tried in local courts which the...

If President Donald Trump replaces the deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a conservative stalwart, then attempts to pull back on the president’s environmental regulatory rollbacks through the courts could be thwarted,...