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Hey, if anyone wants some good news - the Inflation Reduction Act had language in it on climate to basically give SCOTUS the finger on the recent ruling that stripped the EPA of most of its regulatory power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/climate/epa-supreme-court-pollution.html

The New York Times reports...

When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency the broad authority to shift America away from burning fossil fuels.

Now it has.

Throughout the landmark climate law, passed this month, is language specifically written specifically to address the Supreme Court's justification for reining in the E.P.A., a ruling that was one of the court's most consequential of the term. The new law amends the Clean Air Act, the country's bedrock air-quality legislation, to define the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels as an "air pollutant."

This language, according to legal experts as well as the Democrats who worked it into the legislation, explicitly gives the E.P.A. the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and to use its power to push the adoption of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

Whining from Cruz about it, giving up the game:

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1562096872730361857

SCOTUS: If you want to regulate greenhouse gases you should have explicitly said so!
Dems: k
SCOTUS: wait no