Obama freiné par la Cour suprême

Le Président Obama souhaitait freiner les émissions polluantes liées à l'exploitation du charbon, mais cinq des neuf juges du plus haut tribunal viennent de freiner son projet. l'administration démocrate pourra-t-elle éventuellement mener le projet jusqu'à sa réalisation? La décision de la cour sème le doute.

 “It’s a stunning development,” Jody Freeman, a Harvard law professor and former environmental legal counsel to the Obama administration, said in an email. She added that “the order certainly indicates a high degree of initial judicial skepticism from five justices on the court,” and that the ruling would raise serious questions from nations that signed on to the landmark Paris climate change pact in December.

In negotiating that deal, which requires every country to enact policies to lower emissions, Mr. Obama pointed to the power plant rule as evidence that the United States would take ambitious action, and that other countries should follow.%% The White House said in a statement that it disagreed with the court’s decision and remained confident that it would ultimately prevail. “The administration will continue to take aggressive steps to make forward progress to reduce carbon emissions,” it said."

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