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SCOTUS could deal another blow to climate action

It could decide to pause a plan to slash power plant pollution.

“I would have considered this kind of request laughable just a few years ago, but given the way this court is operating — I don’t laugh at anything anymore,” says Sambhav Sankar, senior vice president for programs at the nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice. But relying on carbon capture lets down health and environmental advocates who had hoped that a transition to renewable energy would fight climate change and push utilities to phase out fossil fuel plants that spew soot and other kinds of pollutants into nearby neighborhoods. Now, industry is arguing that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies aren’t even ready to help fight climate change — at least not to the degree the EPA says is feasible in its power plant rules.

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