Just to reaffirm. This ruling is insanely dumb and absolutely hamstrings pretty much all federal enforcement in any domain (it is for a case specific to the EPA but it hurts the DEA, SEC, and DHS just as bad).
The majority opinion notes that the Supreme Court should be the one that makes these technical judgements on behalf of these agencies, despite that opinion itself containing a technical mistake…
It’s a little known fact that Justice Gorsuch’s mother was the EPA Administrator under Reagan, and she resigned after an abysmal record of mismanagement.
He’s clearly got some mommy issues.
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NO, NO2 (or collectively, NOx) - air pollutants
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N2O - anaesthetic
Just in case anyone was wondering about the specific minutiae this ruling requires non-subject-matter-expert judges to take on.
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