> The gist of that doctrine is that an agency can't stretch some pre-existing grant of Congressional authority to create sweeping regulations addressing a major

> The gist of that doctrine is that an agency can't stretch some pre-existing grant of Congressional authority to create sweeping regulations addressing a major new problem. But it's not a major new problem. The Congress that established the EPA granted the "stretching" along with it, otherwise it would take an act of Congress to determine the color of the Post-its. The new rulings are farcical zealotry. Apparently, the only people capable of making decisions died 100 years ago and anything we've learned after the Civil War doesn't matter.