Clean Air Act Ruling Buttresses President’s Climate Action Plan
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2014 — Building on two prior decisions affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards like those recently proposed for power plants, the Supreme Court today upheld the core of EPA’s associated permitting requirements for new carbon pollution sources.
At issue was whether large new industrial facilities emitting carbon pollution – including power plants – need to obtain clean air permits…
