U.S. Chamber Backs Coal Sector Suit Seeking EPA Air Rules 'Jobs' Review

August 23, 2016
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing coal companies' suit aiming to force EPA to broadly review the impact its Clean Air Act policies have had on coal sector employment, arguing that Congress wrote the air law to mandate frequent reviews of rules' impacts on jobs rather than the forward-looking estimates EPA has relied on. The Chamber filed an amicus brief Aug. 22 in Murray Energy, et al., v. EPA, urging the U.S. District Court for the Northern...


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