Kavanaugh Would Add Skeptic of EPA Climate Authority to High Court

President Donald Trump is seeking to add a well-known skeptic of the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases to the Supreme Court—but it may have minimal impact on climate policy in the near term.

Brett Kavanaugh, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has frequently questioned whether the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped the bounds of its authority laid out by Congress in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors. In many EPA cases that have come before the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh has argued that Congress—and not the agency or the court—should ...