The Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court agrees to take up challenge to EPA capacity to limit power-plant emissions

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.

The court said it would hear appeals from Republican-led states and coal
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companies that are challenging a lower-court ruling that said the EPA had broad latitude to craft such regulations. That decision, issued in January, tossed out industry-friendly Trump administration rules on the grounds that they interpreted the Clean Air Act too narrowly.

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