The E.P.A. decision may feel like a back breaker, but the policy path to responsible, aggressive emissions reductions looked pretty broken yesterday.”

July 21, 2022 By Charles Komanoff

New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, in The Supreme Court’s E.P.A. Decision Is More Gloom Than Doom, July 1.

Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, noted that solving climate change means undertaking a large number of seemingly small measures, like curbing emissions from automobiles, oil and gas wells, air travel, landfills, buildings and more. ‘Just because there are multiple contributors to a problem doesn’t mean we should excuse all but the top one,’ Dr. Oppenheimer said. ‘Just because a polluter’s emissions are decreasing doesn’t mean that they aren’t still far too high.’ “

NY Times, Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants, May 24.