The Supreme Court on Monday overturned the regulations on air quality in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the argument that the economic impact should be considered in a setback for the Obama administration.
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| The invalid environmental Supreme Court rules Obama after challenges by its high cost. |
With a split 5-4 decision, the high court had earlier given a path to victory Affordable Care Act President, determined to send the case to the district court.
"We determined that the EPA does not interpret (statutes) reasonably when it considered the cost irrelevant to the decision to regulate power plants," said the ruling in "Michigan vs EPA".
"They revert the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit," he topped.
EPA regulations were challenged by utilities and by some states, like Michigan, which argued that the cost of compliance was higher than nine thousand 600 million dollars.
However, the agency estimated at the time that the regulations would derive profit from 37 billion to 90 billion dollars.
According to the Obama administration, the rules against pollution were key to preventing premature death of over 11 thousand people a year or the emergence of more than 130 thousand cases of asthma.
The ruling against EPA regulations was supported by Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy. A vote for Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ruth Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
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