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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from coal power plants and GOP-led states as it considers limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to curb greenhouse gases.
The appeals seek to prevent the Biden administration from instituting the sort of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to implement under the Obama administration.
The Supreme Court put Obama's Clean Power Plan on hold in 2016, and it never took effect.
In accepting the petition, the court agreed to take on its most significant climate case since 2007, when justices ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gasses could be regulated as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
In weighing in on the case, the 6-3 conservative majority of the court could throw a wrench in Biden's goal of putting the US on track to cut emissions 50% by 2030. The announcement came just before Biden touts his climate agenda at the COP26 in Glasgow next week.
The court will review an appeals court decision to axe the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, a Trump-era regulation that replaced the Clean Power Plan.
The court will review an appeals court decision to axe the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, a Trump-era regulation that replaced the Clean Power Plan
The Trump-era EPA claimed that the rule restores 'rule of law, empowers states,