Fifteen states — led by West Virginia and including several oil and gas heavyweights — have filed an emergency petition in federal court, urging it to postpone the deadlines set forth earlier this month by the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). On Thursday, attorneys general for the 15 states filed an emergency petition for an extraordinary writ in U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. They argue that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had exceeded its authority, and had given the states insufficient time — 13 months — to design and submit to EPA plans showing how they would replace coal-fired generation with cleaner alternatives, including natural gas.
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