"Policy priorities may change from one administration to the next," the D.C. Circuit pronounced, but the Trump EPA's "tortured series of misreadings of [the Clean Air Act] cannot unambiguously foreclose the authority Congress conferred." In a long-awaited ruling, issued just one day before inauguration, the court upheld EPA's broad authority to address carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 (d) of the act. The opinion will boost the Biden administration's ambitious climate agenda, which is already underway through a day one executive order.
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