Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 6/23/2025
The 7-2 ruling emphasized that it was not considering the substance of the dispute itself, but solely whether the producers had the legal standing to bring the lawsuit.It’s been a rough go for the Democrats in California recently.
Over the course of the last few days, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of the District Court injunction undoing President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard after riots and attacks on federal ICE agents enforcing federal immigraton laws.
Governor Gavin Newsom was reported to be “NAPAing” as Los Angeles burned again…these fires being man-caused conflagrations set by anti-ICE demonstrators.
Now the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled (in a 7-2 decision, no less) that fuel producers have legal standing to challenge California’s vehicle emissions standards and electric vehicle (EV) requirements. California has spent the last several years promoting the state’s “net zero” insanity and endeavoring to inflict it on other states.
This decision revives a lawsuit brought by industry groups, including a subsidiary of Valero Energy and other fuel manufacturers, who argue that California’s stricter standards [enabled by a federal waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] harm their business interests by reducing demand for liquid fuels.
The justices in a 7-2 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to throw out the lawsuit by a Valero Energy (VLO.N) subsidiary and fuel industry groups. The lower court had concluded that the plaintiffs lacked the required legal standing to challenge a 2022 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to let California set its own regulations.
“The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority.
🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just struck a MASSIVE blow against the EPA and Radical Democrats climate agenda by allowing energy producers to challenge California’s EV emissions standards, citing economic harm from reduced gasoline demand.
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/supreme-court-rules-fuel-producers-can-contest-californias-emissions-regulations/
