The Obama administration scored a major victory in its bid for clean energy when the Supreme Court on Tuesday "upheld the authority of the Environmental
Protection Agency to regulate the smog from coal plants that drifts
across state lines from 28 Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East
Coast," Coral Davenport writes for The New York Times.
The 6-to-2 ruling "will force coal plant owners to install costly 'scrubber' technology to curb smokestack pollution of smog-forming chemicals," Davenport writes. "Many owners have said the regulation would be so expensive to carry out that they expected to shut down their oldest and dirtiest coal plants."
Legal experts said the decision "signals that the Obama administration’s efforts to use the Clean Air Act to fight global warming could withstand legal challenges," Davenport writes. "In June, EPA is expected to propose a sweeping new Clean Air Act regulation to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that scientists say is the chief cause of climate change. Coal plants are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States." (Read more)
The 6-to-2 ruling "will force coal plant owners to install costly 'scrubber' technology to curb smokestack pollution of smog-forming chemicals," Davenport writes. "Many owners have said the regulation would be so expensive to carry out that they expected to shut down their oldest and dirtiest coal plants."
Legal experts said the decision "signals that the Obama administration’s efforts to use the Clean Air Act to fight global warming could withstand legal challenges," Davenport writes. "In June, EPA is expected to propose a sweeping new Clean Air Act regulation to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that scientists say is the chief cause of climate change. Coal plants are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States." (Read more)
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