Activists Bid To Defend Climate NSPS

Environmentalists are seeking to intervene on EPA's behalf to defend the agency's proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) new source performance standards (NSPS) for power plants from an unusual industry lawsuit that takes the rare step of challenging a proposal rather than a final rule. The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund and others filed a July 12 motion in the case, Las Brisas Energy Center, et al. v. EPA, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...