How does this effect the government and their ability to create new policies? And does this ruling carry any potential for irreparable damages?
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In a lot of ways it’s pulled the teeth of organizations like the FDA and EPA.
The concern is that these organizations have been setting the rules for so long that Congress got used to passing vague laws with the intention of executive branch organizations setting guidelines on how they were to be enforced for decades.
So what we can expect now is a lot of companies and organizations will push the rules to see what they get away with.
Since a lot of these laws are vague they now have to be challenged in court. A lot of them won’t get challenged at all because the Executive Branch orgs don’t have the resources to do that, so many violations are likely to go unchallenged. While other rulings will get dragged on in procedures and appeals for as long as possible.
All the while a lot of undo-able damage can and will be done to things like the environment.
It’s now up to the States and Congress to pass laws with clear definitions of what’s allowed and what isn’t, so it might vary State to State, and lobbying pressure will push the laws in the direction of what makes sense for companies. If they can’t get a higher CO2 limit in California, why not try in Texas? etc
Furthermore legislatures, particularly Congress are slow and lately are even deadlocked unable to do anything. So it will take decades to pass laws to ‘catch up’ as it were.
So in general this is really awful for consumers and Americans.
In a lot of ways this is a first step towards undoing environmental rules and legislation in favor of companies.
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