Government,
Environmental & Energy
Aug. 31, 2022
Legal experts discount impact of Biden climate bill on EPA lawsuits
“There’s been a lot of recent talk about whether the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) indirectly overrides West Virginia v. EPA,” wrote Daniel Farber, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. “The answer to that is probably, ‘no.’”
Legal experts are dismissing the idea that language in a spending bill signed into law by President Joe Biden this month will hinder future legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to fight climate change.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the EPA cannot act to reduce the carbon footprint of existing power plants without express approval by Congress. West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 20-1530...
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