A Supreme Crackdown on the Environmental Protection Agency?

The Supreme Court may be on the verge of clawing back some of the sweeping regulatory authority it unwisely gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 15 years ago at the height of Al Gore-promoted global warming hysteria. This about-face by the high court could come if conservative justices have the courage to do the right thing in West Virginia v. EPA, which the court heard Feb. 28. In all, 19 states are challenging how much power the federal Clean Air Act gives the agency. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a Republican leading the legal challenge, told this writer recently he is concerned the EPA is transforming itself from “an environmental regulator into a central energy planning authority.”