{"id":552,"date":"2022-06-30T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcv26.wpenginepowered.com\/newsroom\/extreme-scotus-ruling-shows-importance-of-congressional-climate-action-defense-of-climate-progress-here-in-virginia\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:30:54","slug":"extreme-scotus-ruling-shows-importance-of-congressional-climate-action-defense-of-climate-progress-here-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"valcv_release","link":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/newsroom\/extreme-scotus-ruling-shows-importance-of-congressional-climate-action-defense-of-climate-progress-here-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"La decisi\u00f3n extrema de la Corte Suprema subraya la importancia de la acci\u00f3n clim\u00e1tica del Congreso y la defensa del progreso clim\u00e1tico aqu\u00ed en Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RICHMOND <\/strong>\u2013 Today, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to address climate change by reducing power plant emissions in ruling that the Clean Air Act doesn\u2019t give EPA \u201cbroad authority\u201d to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>In response to today\u2019s ruling, <strong>Michael Town, Director Ejecutivo de la Virginia League of Conservation Voters<\/strong>, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn yet another radical ruling by an extreme Supreme Court, the fight to address climate change just got that much more difficult. Today\u2019s decision putting the onus to address this crisis back on Congress should light a fire under a stalled Senate to finish the job on reconciliation by passing $555 billion in climate and clean energy investments that cut pollution, create good-paying jobs, and put vulnerable, impacted communities first.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s ruling also shows just how important it is for us to protect the gains we\u2019ve made here in Virginia to cut pollution and secure a clean energy future. Virginia LCV will continue fighting to defend our climate policies from attacks here in Virginia, and holding the Youngkin Administration accountable when they work to roll back the vital progress we\u2019ve made growing a clean energy economy, protecting impacted communities, and cutting the harmful pollution that threatens our health and our planet.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2013 Today, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to address climate change by reducing power plant emissions in ruling that the Clean Air Act doesn\u2019t give EPA \u201cbroad authority\u201d to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from the energy sector. In response to today\u2019s ruling, Michael Town, Executive Director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-552","valcv_release","type-valcv_release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/valcv_release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}