Clean Power Plan Opponents Preparing Legal Challenges to Halt Implementation

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The mining industry and states opposed to the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan vowed to mount new legal challenges after the final rule was unveiled Aug. 3. "We have no choice but to challenge the Obama administration's illegal actions in court, and we will prevail," Robert Murray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Murray Energy Corp., said in an Aug. 3 statement. The final Clean Power Plan (RIN 2060-AR33), released Aug. 3, would set individual carbon dioxide emissions rates for the power sector in each state (see related story).