The Biden administration has been preparing for the overturn of Chevron, knowing that conservative activists have pushed cases like this, and that the majority of justices on the Supreme Court were expected to look favorably on it.
Democrats changed that in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a law chiefly focused on spending billions of dollars on clean energy technology to fight climate change. But the law amends the Clean Air Act to define the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels as an air pollutant.
The specificity of that legal language should protect E.P.A.'s authority to regulate carbon dioxide pollution by limiting their emission from tailpipes and smokestacks.
Opponents of the rule chiefly, the fossil fuel industry are still expected to use the demise of the Chevron doctrine to attempt to weaken the specifics of those rules.
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