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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (7986)3/8/2001 11:33:38 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to set new and tougher clean air standards without first considering the potential economic impact on industry, a major victory for federal efforts to control pollution.

The first thing I would look at with Supreme Court decisions is the question of does the decision follow the constitution and the law. I don't see any constitutional problems with this decision. I don't know the applicable law in this case enough to make an informed comment.

I suppose the the EPA does and perhaps should have the authority to regulate standards without regard to the cost, but I don't think they should choose to do so. I am not against the court refraining from ordering the EPA to follow some procedure to calculate the costs (to do so would IMO be judicial activism unless the law specifically calls for such a procedure and I believe it does not), but if costs aren't considered you run in to problems. Those problems can even include environmental problems. (If huge costs are imposed on people and corporations for minimal gain, then there may be less support for later more sensible regulation. Also if regulation is seen as unreasonable more effort will be put into getting around the regulations legally or illegally.)

Tim
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