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Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Limits on Power Plants
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 29, 2015 03:45pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | ADAM LIPTAK and CORAL DAVENPORT |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, June 29, 2015 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Supreme Court on Monday blocked one of the Obama administration’s most ambitious environmental initiatives, an Environmental Protection Agency regulation meant to limit emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
Industry groups and some 20 states had challenged the E.P.A.’s decision to regulate the emissions, saying the agency had failed to take into account the punishing costs its rule would impose.
The Clean Air Act required the regulation to be “appropriate and necessary.” The challengers said the agency had run afoul of that law by deciding to regulate the emissions without first undertaking a cost-benefit analysis.
The decision, Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 14-46, does not strike down the rule, but it means the E.P.A. will have to review and rewrite it, taking costs into consideration. Industries will be expected to comply with the current rule until a revised one is issued. |
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