Climate activism has done major harm to the economy, but Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency offers hope for easing the pain.
The justices ruled that Congress must explicitly grant federal agencies the power to make broad regulatory decisions before they can do so. That defangs an Obama-era mandate on power plants and blocks President Biden from resuscitating it; the administration would need Congress’ OK first.
That mandate could’ve crushed generation capacity with onerous requirements for curbing emissions and using alternative power sources — with zero respect for the rule of law, the damage it would to do a key economic sector or the effect on energy prices for average Americans.
Meanwhile, the nation is already struggling under the worst inflation in decades, sparked in part by climate activists’ success in limiting the use of…
