Barry Rabe, The Washington Post: Barry Rabe, a professor of environmental policy at the University of Michigan, said that while the ruling might seem technical, it has major implications both for the fight against HFCs and for administrative power.
“Even when you have broad, bipartisan support for a statute, it would suggest that Congress would have to be incredibly detailed in every step and stage of implementation or the current federal courts might overthrow it,” he said. “We could be seeing a lot of kind of trench warfare, if you will, in the judicial system.”