Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court's Pro-Pollution Ruling

Statement

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect families from pollution by coal companies:

"Today's ruling by radical, pro-pollution Justices on the Supreme Court strikes a severe blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to do its fundamental duty: to protect the environment. By restricting the EPA's authority, the Republican supermajority on the Court has bowed to the dirty energy special interests who seek to poison the air our children breathe and the water they drink with impunity.

"The climate crisis has reached "Code Red for Humanity' -- and our nation must have every tool at its disposal to fight back. As nearly 200 Congressional Democrats argued in our amicus brief for this case, the Clean Air Act empowers the EPA to follow the science to keep families safe from pollution, which includes pollution by coal companies. It is dangerous and disgraceful that this Republican-appointed Majority has chosen to defy the will of the Congress, ignore the well-being of American families and fuel climate catastrophe for generations to come. As Justice Kagan wrote in the powerful dissent, with this ruling the Court "appoints itself -- instead of Congress or the expert agency -- the decision-maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.'

"This devastating decision is the latest in the efforts by extremist and partisan Republican-appointed Justices to take a wrecking ball to the health, liberty and security of the American people. In just two weeks, the Court has acted to erase reproductive health freedom, flood our public places with more deadly weapons and, now, to let our planet burn. As a radical Republican Party and their henchmen on the Supreme Court continue their all-out assault on our rights and freedoms, Democrats will not yield in our fight For The Children, For The Planet and For The People."

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