DNC Climate Council Statement: SCOTUS Decision on West Virginia v. EPA

‘The ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute and it will set back our nation’s environmental progress at the very moment we can least afford to do so.’

Michelle Deatrick, Chair of the DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court decision on West Virginia v EPA: 

“This ruling takes a wrecking ball to the government’s ability to fight the climate crisis. It is yet another radical ruling from an activist court determined to act as nothing more than a political arm of the Republican Party. Today’s ruling, like so many this term, was not based on the law or facts but rather is a tool to advance the extremist political agenda of a Republican Party that is out of step with the American people.  

“This ruling will make it harder to combat the climate crisis. The ruling will make it easier for polluters to pollute and it will set back our nation’s environmental progress at the very moment we can least afford to do so. 

“The responsibility now falls to Congress to undo the damage this court has done. And the clock is ticking. The climate crisis is not coming. It is here now. And the ruling by this court will make this crisis exponentially worse.”