States, others eye CPP stay, argue court risks irrelevance

摘要

States, utilities and business groups last weekrnput a landmark carbon rule impacting thernexisting generation fleet on the fast track tornthe Supreme Court, ahead of a lower courtrnruling on the merits of the regulation.rnAttorneys general for West Virginia andrnTexas led a 26-state coalition in petitioningrnthe high court on January 26 to immediatelyrnstay implementation of the Clean Power Planrnfollowing the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’rnrecent decision to deny such requests madernby states and industry groups.rnThe US Chamber of Commerce and 15 other trade groups, referring to themselves asrnthe Business Associations, filed a similarrnmotion to the Supreme Court January 27. Yetrnanother request for the high court to overrulernthe DC Circuit regarding stay of the CPP camernfrom a coalition of 60 so-called “utility andrnallied parties.”