"If Judge Brett Kavanaugh had his way, EPA would be without an important tool for regulating air pollution that drifts across state lines.

Kavanaugh — President Trump's Supreme Court nominee — would want to know exactly how much pollution each upwind state was sending to their downwind neighbors.

His goal: Reduce the chance that EPA might "over-control" a state's emissions.

But Kavanaugh's views in the 2012 opinion he wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ran smack into a wall on the Supreme Court."

Amanda Reilly reports for Greenwire August 15, 2018. [2]