Let the dying begin!
We’re doomed. Corporate profits come first. Coal. Coal. Coal.
The Trump administration says it agrees with the appellate ruling and that a new rule is in the works.
You can find it right beside the ACA replacement plan.
New rule: no rules.
Here we go . . . . and not to a good place for most Americans.
The Montreal Protocol was worked out before the anti-science movement took hold. It’s a powerful example of what can be done if the whole world works together. It has taken a while (because of the kinetics of the ozone reactions in the upper atmosphere), but the ozone hole is stabilizing. It’s a marvelous achievement. And now this puke hack wants to undo it all.
The Supreme Court is declining to review an environmental ruling written by Brett Kavanaugh in his former role as an appeals court judge.
Did Kavanaugh recuse himself from this decision?
The fact that judges, politicians and other non-scientists of any kind get to make all scientific decisions that affect the whole world is one of the facts that ensure our doom as a country and possibly as a species.
Meanwhile, this morning the air in my state----where several Republican governors in a row have dedicated themselves to dismantling the state EPA—is not only eerily hot for this time of year, but so toxic it literally hurts to breathe, and there is a greasy film on windowsills I scrubbed only a few days ago.
“The Trump administration says it agrees with the appellate ruling and that a new rule is in the works.”
The new rule will dictate you can't release hydrofluorocarbons into the atmosphere, unless you really want to, then it's OK.SCOTUS Rejects Appeal Of Kavanaugh Ruling That Struck Down Obama EPA Rule
And so it begins… 
Great question, given all that high-mindedly pious BS he was spouting about his future role on the Court.
On a lesser scale (but maybe not…) the same principle applies in my profession. Education policy decisions made by Betsey DeVos? Really?
May as well have a trained seal, playing horns, making these decisions.
This actually reflects much more on the (current) EPA than it does on the Supreme Court, the latter of whom are behaving normally under the cicumstances. The EPA recently joined the HFC manufacturers in opposing a review by the Supreme Court, in a reversal of the EPA’s views under the Obama administration. Since the case would have been “so-and-so vs. EPA” had it gone forward, removing themselves from opposition means it’s pretty normal for the Supreme Court to reject this.
I know we don’t like Kavanaugh and all that, but this is really on the EPA.
Come on, TPM, you can find a better picture that that. How about one with his face all squished up, blotchy red, with tears coming down. Or just maybe one with the angry sniff.
…but this is really on the (current leadership of the) EPA.
I’d like to hear what the rank-and-file scientists within the agency think about this decision.
They’d tell you, but then someone would have to kill them.
Exactly. You know what might be helpful, would be if elected officials could set up some sort of groups of scientific experts to look into these relevant issues, study them, make recommendations, set policy, and then follow those policies. 
This current effort by conservatives to discredit and dismantle every administrative agency with any sort of expertise will be our doom. They like to pass it off as defending democracy, but in reality, it’s a sort of willful blindness, a refusal to make use of the wealth of knowledge at our disposal.
At least seals have charisma.