Clean Power Plan Opponents Fear Repeat Of MATS if Supreme Court Doesn't Stay Rule

摘要

Opponents of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan fear states will be forced to comply with the carbon dioxide reductions for power plants long before courts decide whether the rule is legal unless the U.S. Supreme Court halts its implementation. One day before the EPA is required to respond to petitions to the Supreme Court to stay implementation of the Clean Power Plan, attorneys general leading the fight against the rule said they fear a repeat of the litigation over the agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, where the rule was sent back to the agency for correction long after utilities had already made the pollution control investments necessary to comply.