The EPA does stand for Environmental Protection Agency, after all. But today, there was a win for clean air and common sense when the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled the EPA does indeed have the authority to regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.

Carol Browner, the Former EPA head in the Clinton administration and former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy under President Obama, commented at Climate Progress:

The Court's decision should put an end, once and for all, to any questions about the EPA's legal authority to protect us from industrial carbon pollution through the Clean Air Act. This decision is a devastating blow to those who challenge the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and deny its impact on public health and welfare.

Of course, this really won't mean the end of the multitude of obstacles to regulating carbon pollution - but it certainly does help.

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