The Supreme Court reined in the Environmental Protection Agency in a ruling on Monday, but the limitations it imposed were slight and largely allow the agency to continue instating regulations on greenhouse gas emitters. In a long and complex ruling, the court found that one of the ways that the EPA had been regulating large bodies like power plants was illegal — namely, it had adjusted the specific language of a law addressing pollutants. EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case. [The] EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case, Justice Antonin Scalia says in a summery of the 5–4 decision, according to The New York Times.
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