Supreme Court Effectively Kills the Green New Deal and Upholds the Rule of Law

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In response to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in West Virginia v. EPA, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert issued the following statement:

"Our government of the people, by the people, for the people is meant to be led by the people's elected Representatives, not unaccountable bureaucrats. Congress never gave the EPA the power to dictate the minutia of how energy producers should produce energy for every power plant across the country. It was wrong for Obama and his agency minions to attempt to usurp Congress' power to begin with, and I am grateful that the Supreme Court returned power to the people and restored the separation of powers.

"Good riddance to the EPA's Green New Deal-like executive mandates. We are facing the most pressing energy crisis since Jimmy Carter, yet the Biden regime is more focused on shutting down American energy production than delivering reliable, affordable energy to keep the lights on and gas prices low. Climate ideologues are out-of-touch with the American people, and I am grateful that their war on coal was found unconstitutional. The Supreme Court again made the right decision and courageously defended the Constitution's separation of powers. Executive agencies have the power to enforce the law, not make it."

Background:

In December 2021, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert signed an amicus brief in support of West Virginia arguing that the EPA had gone beyond its statutory authority and infringed on Congress' exclusive legislative power.

An independent economic analysis found that the so-called "Clean Power Plan" would have killed 226,000 jobs annually and cost the U.S. economy $50 billion each year.

In February of 2016, the Supreme Court issued an order on a 5-4 vote that blocked Obama's so-called "Clean Power Plan" from taking effect.

The Trump administration agreed that Obama's job-killing mandates exceeded the EPA's regulatory authority, so they repealed it and replaced it with the less extreme Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule. However, several blue states sued and won in the U.S. appeals court in Washington which vacated the repeal of the Clean Power Plan as well as the ACE Rule.

Fortunately, West Virginia and 18 other Republican-controlled states filed litigation making clear that Section 111 does not allow the EPA to make regulations that drastically overhaul American electrical grids or force industries to eliminate carbon emissions altogether. This action spurred the Court's decision today.

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