Apparently when Congress created the EPA to fix National guidelines and enforce them with regards to environmental regulations like the clean air act, they had to be more specific in what their power was according to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.
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If you aren’t in favor of expanding the courts to override these extremist judges then you are part of the problem.
Here’s a small piece of what we have to look forward too - again. (Not even looking at the wider impact of this ruling.
The fog started building up in Donora on Wednesday, October 27, 1948. By the following day it was causing coughing and other signs of
respiratory distress for many residents of the community in the Monongahela River valley. Many of the illnesses and deaths were initially attributed to
asthma. The smog continued until it rained on Sunday, October 31, by which time 20 residents of Donora had died and approximately one third to one half of the town's population of 14,000 residents had been sickened. Another 50 residents died of respiratory causes within a month after the incident; notable among the fatalities was Lukasz Musial, the father of future baseball Hall of Famer and the 1948
National League MVP Stan Musial.
Hydrogen fluoride and
sulfur dioxide emissions from
U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its
American Steel & Wireplant were frequent occurrences in Donora. What made the 1948 event more severe was a
temperature inversion, a situation in which warmer air aloft traps pollution in a layer of colder air near the surface. The pollutants in the air mixed with fog to form a thick, yellowish, acrid smog that hung over Donora for five days. The
sulfuric acid,
nitrogen dioxide,
fluorine, and other poisonous gases that usually dispersed into the atmosphere were caught in the inversion and accumulated until rain ended the weather pattern.
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