“The scary thing is that precisely at the moment when we need ambitious, scientifically driven, technologically sound regulation, the Supreme Court is poised to overrule a case that was centrally about agency expertise,” said Lisa Heinzerling, professor at Georgetown Law School who specializes in environmental and administrative law.

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This is critically missing that US agencies aren't particularly bound to scientifically driven, technologically sound regulation.

In fact, with deference agencies can go the other way, moving AGAINST exactly those things.

A HUGE reason for tightening down deference rules is specifically to protect good regulations from political interference.

After all, there's a reason for the "Chevron" in Chevron deference.

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