Not a proud week for the U.S. Supreme Court. Among other decisions, they ruled that courts should no longer defer to regulatory agencies for interpretation of law. These agencies were created to protect us from such things as polluted air, polluted water, bad food and bad drugs.
No matter. They courts no longer need to listen to them so closely.
The regulatory agencies are the people's defense. They were created because we need people versed in such matters making guiding us when it comes to the environment and energy use, among other things. We of the masses do not have time to study such things, but we have the agencies to do that for us. When you take away the doctrine of allowing the regulatory agencies to be the guiding the courts through ambigous legal language, you create a vacuum. Who then is going to take the lead in saying how the ambigous language should be applied? Yes, that pretty much leaves the fossil fuel industry -- and that is like letting the wolf guard the henhouse. The Supreme Court justices surely had their thinking hats on when they made this decision.
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