Environmental Policy Disaster: The Supreme Court Takes Sweeping Control – Kim Steinhardt | Op-Ed
A recent, controversial Supreme Court decision sets off alarm bells for anyone interested in the emerging policies, programs, and plans intended to address the pressing problems of climate change and sea level rise, as well as other governmental action across a wide swath of American life…
The Jury is Out: Has the Supreme Court Just Shredded the Environmental Policymaking Safety Net?
Remember what it was like as a kid when a grownup told you “Because I said so”?
Well, a newly constituted majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has recently flexed its ideological muscle, upending 50 years of precedent guiding its decisions, and basically told us “Because I said so.”
This quiet revolution by an activist majority, deciding cases based on primarily political grounds rather than on the constraints of facts and legal precedent, will have grave impact on environmental policymaking – as well civil rights, healthcare, safety, education, elections, technology, finance, and economics…