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I'm more familiar with the automotive sector, but this is pretty huge. The Clean Air Act only said that the EPA should limit emissions. The standardized drive cycles and testing procedure were all determined by the EPA themselves. What happens now if an automaker challenges these procedures? The EPA loses authority to create the test procedures, and the automakers can just give them numbers and say "trust us"
I can't imagine that Congress could competently create laws for vehicle test procedures themselves. I imagine we'll just default to California testing requirements for a lot of cars, but I don't imagine it's going to play out well as a whole
This is going to be awful. Deregulation of the FDA and labor agencies is going to fuck us over.
It's interesting to me that, as conservatives and Republicans gain more political power, people are generally increasingly upset by the state of the union. But their perceptions of responsibility hinge on who controls Congress and the presidency rather than how the government works. So, they're blind to how conservatives and Republican ruin everything good under the sun.
So, even as the Supreme Court undermines the FDA and NLRB, Americans will tend to blame the wrong party for it until they're knee deep in literal shit.