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Court leaves dwindling paths for Biden’s climate mission

FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - Lights illuminate a coal mine at twilight, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. With the nearby coal-fired Naughton Powerplant being decommissioned in 2025, the fate of the coal mine and its workers is uncertain. More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden's hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead. But it's not far from it after a Supreme Court ruling not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal. (AP Photo/Natalie Behring, File) FILE - People calling for a climate solution demonstrate outside of a hearing of the California Air Resources Board in Sacramento, Calif., June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Court leaves dwindling paths for Biden’s climate mission