By Alex Henderson For more than half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Environmental Protection Agency — created under President Richard Nixon in 1970 — to regulate as it saw fit. But that changed on June 30, 2022 with the Court’s 6-3 ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, which curtailed the EPA’s ability to regulate power plant emissions. The ruling comes at a time when scientists are seeing more and more evidence of the effects of climate change. From record flooding in Australia to heatwaves and wildfires in both the United States and Europe, extreme weather events have been common th…