Supreme Court could curb agency powers

摘要

The Supreme Court could weigh in this term on the scope of authority bestowed to federal agencies.With high-profile gun and abortion disputes on the horizon, the Supreme Court’s term begins Monday with a groundwater dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee.But the real blockbuster environmental battles could come through a series of pending petitions for the Supreme Court to get involved in legal fights over the scope of EPA regulations under thenation’s bedrock clean air and water laws.