For Now, Supreme Court's Mercury Ruling Preserves Challenges To ESPS

June 30, 2015
The Supreme Court's ruling remanding EPA's mercury rule for power plants to a lower court appears to have preserved -- for now -- critics' argument that the agency lacks threshold Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at existing power plants -- though some observers say that could change depending on how the lower court addresses the litigation. Power industry and other sources say that litigants in the mercury rule case could seek surprise remedies that could...


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