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To bolster declining electric car sales, President Biden told EPA to create a new emissions standard. The agency put epidemiologists to work and declared that X (fill in any number you like, it’s epidemiology, that’s what they did) life-years have been lost without electric cars and trucks, and created a new emissions-standard that is effectively a ban on their competitors.Thanks to a 1984 Supreme Court ruling, a ‘Chevron deference’ judgment that for no sane reason has not been challenged, Presidents can do that. If they want to create a law without Congress, they direct an agency to do it. Because the Chevron Deference ruling found that agencies could create any regulation if it’s in their mandate, a President can just change their mandate. President Biden did it with CDC when he wanted to control rental properties in the US (struck down) and EPA when he wanted to declare a man-made pond on a farm a Navigable Water of the United States (struck down) and when his own government employees didn’t want to get a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine (not struck down, he only made OSHA tell the private sector to do that.)
