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The executive has "abused" it to do things like stop factories dumping toxic chemicals in rivers.
As I asked you below, how do you think our pro-corporate justice system will rule on such matters?
This isn't just about the EPA, this applies to other agencies as well. Including ones that charge individuals for offenses that were lawful prior to a reinterpretation made by unelected officials.
And it's also about the EPA. And it's about the most important issue in the world- climate change.
And now it's in the hands of a bunch of people who don't even believe it's real and if they do, think the emissions should keep happening anyway because they don't give a shit.
Before any new administration can come in, appoint their hacks, and throw off long term climate plans. This also puts power into the legislature (and by that the people) allowing for the enactment of environmental laws that have firm regulations that won't disappear in 4 years. Enabling us to meet long term goals and commitments.
There will be no long-term climate plans anymore, that's the point. Judges will get rid of them all because the justice system is pro-corporate.
This can be circumnavigated by crafting legislation that leaves little for interpretation or judical review. Legislative definitions and unambiguous language have and will always act as handcuffs on the judiciary.
When has that ever stopped SCOTUS before?
One well know example was the flag burning case with Scalia.
SCOTUS is currently deciding whether or not the president can legally commit murder. That doesn't even need special legislation. There isn't even a question. And yet SCOTUS is looking into the question. And you want me to trust them with ecological disasters?