The US Supreme Court today decided a case that pitted
98 property owners in the toxic towns of Opportunity and Crackerville,
Montana against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and
the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). The matter apparently also put
chief justice John Roberts at odds with his fellow conservative, Neil
Gorsuch. The justices sparred in dueling opinions
over the notion of “paternalistic central planning,” a formulation
Gorsuch used in his dissent and one that suggested his colleagues in the
majority were practically communists
or—almost as loathsome—socialists. Roberts, for his part, defended a
centralized approach to environmental cleanups under federal law and
evidently resented his colleague’s claims...MORE
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