Comment by tick_tock_tick
1 year ago
The same way agency did before Chevron. Chevron has only existed since 1984. Most of our core food, drug, air, etc regulations all predate it. They just have to use the authority explicitly granted to them rather then making shit up.
Ah to live in a time that congress could make laws… swoon
Congress currently has, and always has had, control of regulatory agencies. There are many ways this works. In many cases, congresses created the agencies by legislation so they can simply change the powers of the agency. If they don’t like a regulation, they can pass a law overriding the regulation. If they didn’t like an agency using chevron a certain way, they can, again, pass a law. They can also withhold monies from the agencies or restrict the use of those monies.
I get that passing laws is hard but that is one of the reasons to have agencies!
Chevron was not carte blanche either.