How the Supreme Court's EPA ruling will shape government power

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court upended 40 years of deference to agencies like the EPA. They've ruled that the EPA can't aggressively regulate carbon emissions. But the ruling could curb the reach of almost every regulatory agency in the country.

Christine Todd Whitman, Lisa Graves, Paul DeCamp and Christopher Wright join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:25.8	I'm Megna Chakra Bardy.
0:27.6	Last week in the culmination of an historic and revolutionary
0:31.5	Supreme Court term, the court issued a sweeping opinion
0:35.3	curtailing the environmental protection agencies' ability
0:38.8	to issue regulations on climate change.
0:41.6	Specifically, the court ruled that in crafting rules
0:45.0	to reduce carbon emissions from US power plants,
0:48.0	the EPA had gone beyond its congressional
0:50.7	granted authority.
0:52.4	West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morris
0:55.2	led the lawsuit against the EPA, and here he was on Fox News
0:59.0	the day of the ruling.
1:00.4	This is a huge victory for our American system of government.
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