William Boyd thinks Supreme Court is attacking human health and the environment | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

Katerina Jowid
July 01, 2022
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Publication: Vox

UCLA Expert: William Boyd: Professor and Michael J. Klein Chair, UCLA Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsys: Vox examines the Environmental Protection Agency’s response after the new Supreme Court ruling to limit federal laws on power plant emissions.

UCLA News: “The West Virginia case can be seen as part of a larger trend directed at restricting the ability of EPA and other agencies to protect health, safety, and the environment,” Boyd argued. “This starts at the top with the Supreme Court, but it will ripple through the federal judiciary as decisions accumulate and the jurisprudence that has taken over the last half century to accommodate the regulatory state is diminished and hollowed out.”