The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited some aspects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from new stationary sources, but retained the agency’s ability to scrutinize sources that already emit traditional pollutants.
Justice Antonin Scalia, in announcing the ruling, said the EPA would be able to regulate 83 percent of the emissions it was seeking to regulate in the litigation brought by industry groups. Four justices dissented from different aspects of the ruling.
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