A thoughtful response to our post on the EPA Cross State Air Pollution Rule being struck down from a member of the NTMA group on LinkedIn stated that the court’s decision was “not a single gotcha moment of EPA overreach,” and suggested that the court decision was perhaps more attributable to the party line of the judges appointments.
We were pleased with the comments and accepted the challenge to determine if the incident was in fact “not a single gotcha moment of EPA overreach.”
Here are the facts regarding how the EPA has fared in the courts under the current administration.
A half-dozen 2012 moments of similar “overreach, no legal basis, exceed statutory authority” findings for just this agency!
Given this record, we would gently suggest that the current administration might want to adjust and recalibrate their “approach and overreach.”
Read decisions here:
And by the way the judge in the Florida Wildlife case Robert Hinkle, was appointed by President Clinton; the Mingo Logan judge Amy Berman Jackson was appointed by President Obama.
Click here for a similar listing of more than a dozen recent regulatory smack downs by the courts across various federal agencies totalling more than $4.6 billion.