[drewcoo]

> the clean air act . . . empowers (or in that case creates) the Department or Agency to make rules within some often quite broad guidelines

I think the SCOTUS disagrees. This evidence among others:

https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/scotus-restricts-upholds-epas-...

Your claim is how I thought we all believed government worked for many decades, though.

[Godel_unicode]

I mean, that is how it works, but sometimes agencies overstep their delegated authority and are overruled by the courts. Then they have to go back to the congress and get their authority amended or not.