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No spillover---the Chevron decision incited chaos.

Etsy ’24 [Daniel; 2024; Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the Yale School of the Environment; In the Wake of the Chevron Decision, “Unleashing an unprecedented level of uncertainty into the regulatory arena,” https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/wake-chevron-decision] jchen

By overturning the Chevron principle of reasonable (and limited!) deference to federal agencies in rulemaking, the Supreme Court has knocked out a core pillar of American administrative law and created a real risk of regulatory chaos across a range of policy domains, including environmental protection, health care, labor standards, land use, and corporate reporting. In eliminated a long-established policymaking framework and providing almost no guidance for courts to apply in determining whether agencies have acted reasonably in implementing the legislation adopted by the Congress and signed into law by the president, the court may well have unleashed an unprecedented level of uncertainty into the regulatory arena. The chaos that will result as lower courts pass judgment individually on regulations in areas that are often quite technical and in which the judges involved often lack any expertise will translate into risk and cost for all regulated parties and impose, in effect, an uncertainty tax on businesses large and small, which will spillover onto every American.

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