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Supreme Court Rules Limiting EPA'S Authority

Kristy Plaza |
June 23, 2014 | 3:23 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

The Supreme Court is supporting President Obama's climate plan with this ruling. (Twitter/@OpenerMedia)
The Supreme Court is supporting President Obama's climate plan with this ruling. (Twitter/@OpenerMedia)
The Supreme Court ruled the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act when it tried to regulate carbon emissions from new or modified plants. 

The Supreme Court response was split, but upheld most of President Obama's environmental rules to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, says the L.A. Times.

The justices agreed the EPA could force major polluters to use new and better technology to limit the CO2 emissions released. 

The court also struck down the EPA regulation extending the required greenhouse has permits to millions of other facilities. 

EPA officials support this ruling. "I bears to mention that the EPA is getting almost everything it wants  in this case," said Justice Antonin Scalia. 

This case won't affect President Obama's climate-change policies, says The Daily Beast.

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