‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling

Limiting the Environmental Protection Agency at a time when fossil fuel emissions need to be curbed is devastating'

Amid heat records being shattered across the world and historic wildfires raging across the west, climate activists and policymakers working to aggressively curb greenhouse gas emissions are now facing a new kind of challenge - restrictions issued by the US supreme court.

Earlier today, the court released a ruling in West Virginia v EPA limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, in a major environmental case with far-reaching impacts. This has been classified a devastating" outcome by environmental lawyers, climate scientists and activists alike. One with far-reaching implications for the future of the country, and world.