Power Failure

The Supreme Court's ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation of coal-fired power plants designed to get electric utilities to consider alternate, environmentally friendly ways of generating power such as solar and wind, pretty much says that the EPA can't do that and has to let Congress - the same Congress that is so dysfunctional it can't even pass a non-controversial resolution honoring soccer (not that it's tried, that was sarcastic commentary) - either pass a law or allow the EPA that authority.

In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan wrote, "The stakes here are high. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants' carbon dioxide emissions. 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."

I can.

Anyway, that pretty much is the first step in the next Republican President taking us out of the Paris Agreement again, possibly (likely?) as early as 2025.  As for the need to fight climate change, well, I'm ised to having climate change already.  Which reminds me - severe thunderstorms are forecast for my area today, and I expect an outage.

How ironic!