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E.P.A. Ruling Is Milestone in Long Pushback to Regulation of Business
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court docket ruling in the Environmental Defense Company case on Thursday was a considerable victory for libertarian-minded conservatives who have worked for decades to curtail or dismantle fashionable-model government regulation of the overall economy. In putting down an E.P.A. approach to minimize carbon emissions from ability crops, the court issued a choice whose implications go past hobbling the government’s means to battle local weather modify. Many other styles of polices may well now be harder to defend. The ruling widens an opening to attack a governing administration framework that, in the 20th century, grew to become the way American culture imposes rules on organizations: Organizations established…