California climate kooks lose in Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday shattered the dreams of California’s climate justice warriors in a decision that saw one of the three liberal justices side against them.

In a 7-2 ruling, the high court allowed the state’s energy producers to pursue their lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as they seek to undo state laws regulating the number of electric vehicles that must be sold before 2035, the point at which California hopes to become carbon neutral.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, suggested that the EV mandates are “stringent” and a potentially “unlawful” targeting of a specific industry by the government.

“The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” said Kavanaugh. “In light of this Court’s precedents and the evidence before the Court of Appeals, the fuel producers established Article III standing to challenge EPA’s approval of the California regulations.”

Critically, the “EPA has repeatedly altered its legal position on whether the Clean Air Act authorizes California regulations targeting greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles,” Kavanaugh noted.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed three resolutions undoing large swaths of California’s green energy mandates, virtually eviscerating the liberal state’s ability to become net-zero within 10 years. The move was a gut-punch for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is expected to run for president in 2028 and has touted signing into law the most aggressive climate legislation in the country.
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The proponents of "global warming" or "climate change" have been serially wrong for decades.  The weather is still pretty pleasant in most of the US.  I have lived in South Texas for much of my life, and I can't tell much difference in the seasonal weather.  The temperature might reach the mid-90s today, but that is not much different from what it was over 60 years ago.  While air conditioning has made the temperature more comfortable for those who have it, people have survived that temperature for several decades or more.