Marc Morano, a notorious climate denier who is a staple of Fox News’ pro-fossil fuels and anti-climate programming, used the Supreme Court decision as an opportunity to deny the reality of climate change: “That's one small step for climate sanity, one giant leap for democracy. Today's Supreme Court ruling reigning in the power of the unelected bureaucracy to essentially regulate every aspect of the American economy under the guise of 'climate change' -- has been mercifully laid to rest. CO2 is not a pollutant, humans inhale oxygen and exhale CO2. Humans are not 'pollution. I have been stating the obvious since 2007.” [Twitter, 6/30/22]
Ben Shapiro, whose Daily Wire is funded by fracking billionaires, mocked “leftists” who are upset about the decision, tweeting, “Preparing for the wails of tearful fury from Leftists proclaiming that now that SCOTUS has said Congress must regulate carbon emissions, not the usurpatious EPA, the world will boil. In 3...2...1…” [Twitter, 6/30/22]
Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow, appearing on America’s Newsroom dismisses the need for climate regulations under the EPA by falsely claiming, “The United States has the lowest carbon emissions and the cleanest water of any of the major countries. … We have clean air. We have clean water. We have done a great job on endangered species. We shouldn't have these overreaching overbearing regulations.” [Fox News, America’s Newsroom, 6/30/22]
Right-wing TV personality John Stossel, who has a long career of climate denial, downplayed climate change in a tweet about the decision: “The Supreme Court just ruled that ‘Congress did not grant EPA ... authority to devise emissions caps.’ Good. The EPA overstepped, as all administrative agencies eventually do. Anyway, climate change, while real, is grotesquely overhyped.” [Twitter, 6/30/22]
Podcaster Steven Crowder cast doubt on the idea that climate change is caused by humans. “You have to go through a few different sets of beliefs to be upset with this decision. All right. You have to believe that climate change, not global warming, that climate change is real. … You have to believe that human beings are the primary cause of it. … You have to believe that it is going to have catastrophic results imminently. … And you have to believe that we are capable of actually stopping nature’s course and preventing those catastrophic results.” Crowder also said, “I think Greta Thunberg is full of shit.” [BlazeTV, Louder with Crowder, 6/30/22]
Joe Bastardi, a weather forecaster and climate denier, who used to regularly appear on Fox News to downplay extreme weather events, tweeted, “I can not share the ‘elation’ of my colleagues on the Supreme Court EPA decision, I have seen them for too long, They will find a way around, and exhaust people taking them to court. These are Marxists and Zealots, and they only obey what suits them.” [Twitter, 6/30/22]
In a tweet thread, Steve Milloy, a climate denying former coal and tobacco shill who has a long history of appearing on right-wing TV, said it is “BS” for the dissent opinion in the Supreme Court decision to say “climate change's cases and dangers are no longer subject to serious doubt.” Later in the thread, he called climate change “a hoax.” [Twitter, 6/30/22]
Fox News host Sean Hannity used the court case to attack people who believe that climate change is a threat, stating, “I don't see this Democratic Party ever giving up. I mean, they cling to this cult of climate alarmism. I mean, it's more than a religion to them. It's like you have to deprogram them and I don't even know if you could deprogram them. It's like they have been brainwashed in a cult.” [Fox News, Hannity, 6/30/22]
Newsmax host Chris Salcedo called the decision “a major blow to the Democrats’ man-made global warming religion.” [Newsmax, The Chris Salcedo Show, 6/30/22]