Having already confirmed its intent to force people who become pregnant to bear unwanted children under the penalty of criminal laws and state-sanctioned vigilante harassment, the United States Supreme Court is now poised to ensure those and all future generations continue to endure the harsh miseries of uncontrolled climate change. As reported by Coral Davenport, writing for the New York Times,in the coming days the court will take a brief respite from pretending to ferret out the embarrassing leak of its forthcoming Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health opinion overruling Roe v. Wade (after nearly two months of internal investigations, it is becoming increasingly implausible to believe his or her identity remains unknown), to hand down its decision in the case of West Virginia v. EPA.
Representing the long-awaited payback by the court’s conservative majority to the magnates and CEOs of the fossil fuel industry responsible for their placement on the court, that decision may very well cripple the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to perform its function of protecting the American people from environmental pollution, and in particular to slow, stop, or reverse the catastrophic effects of global warming.