Think things are shitty?
They're gonna get a lot shittier soon, thanks to a lawsuit by liberal San Francisco and the right wing SCOTUS, making it harder to regulate and limit the pollution and raw sewage dumped into our bays and oceans.
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Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges
The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.Mark Sherman (AP News)
volkris
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •It's not a right-wing SCOTUS but rather one that respects the laws passed by Congress regardless of political leanings.
So we elected congresspeople that passed certain legislation that might not have been for the best. Fine, let's dump them and elect better representatives who won't do that, who will fix the laws.
But that's not up to the court. That's up to us.
MikeDunnAuthor
in reply to volkris • • •volkris
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •No, it's the exact opposite.
The CWA didn't authorize what the EPA was doing, and maybe it should! But it didn't. The people we elected decided not to cover that. The court respected the decision of the people that we elected.
The court didn't eviscerate the clean water act, it emphasized the clean water act, what it said and what it didn't say.
In the future maybe we'll elect people that will change the CWA, and at that point we really need the court to continue to do what it just did and emphasize what the law says.
MikeDunnAuthor
in reply to volkris • • •volkris
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •again, that's the opposite of what the Court did.
The Court shored up the EPA giving its orders more teeth by emphasizing the legal basis for its actions.
The EPA isn't eviscerated by this ruling; it's buttressed and amplified through legal mandate.