Supreme Court strikes down part of EPA permitting rule

摘要

The Supreme Court today struck down part of a U.S. EPA program for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Justices held in a split decision that the agency improperly required stationary sources to obtain permits if they qualified for the program only because of greenhouse gas emissions. Utilities, several industry trade groups and a dozen states challenged EPA's suite of greenhouse gas regulations, including the auto standards and EPA's finding that the gases endanger public health. They lost at a federal appeals court, and the Supreme Court declined to take up those issues.