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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Crypto regulation faces even steeper climb after Supreme Court EPA decision - NBC News

This week’s Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's authority may have a surprising beneficiary: cryptocurrency investors who want to avoid federal regulation.
The case before the court was about climate-change regulations from the EPA, but lawyers and lobbyists representing unrelated industries were watching it closely to see what broader statements the justices might make about the powers of an expanding bureaucracy — especially for new industries like crypto.
Because bitcoin and similar digital currencies are so new, there’s no specific federal law governing them. In that absence, two regulatory agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have taken significant steps toward oversight of crypto.
“The EPA decision signals that the Supreme Court won’t take kindly to regulatory agencies like the SEC attempting to redraw their own jurisdictional boundaries beyond what Congress clearly intended,” Jake...



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