Use The EPA

Chait argues that because Congress has repeatedly failed to move on climate change, the EPA should step in:

[W:]hile EPA regulation would distance the issue from democraticaccountability, it would not remove it entirely. If the public objectedstrongly enough, it could vote for a Congress to overturn the EPAregulation. In practice, we accept this kind of rule-by-expert routinely.Monetary policy, once the most political of issues—i.e., WilliamJennings Bryan denouncing the "cross of gold"—is now...