EPA’s utility GHG defense draws lone amicus filer

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is the only group to file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of EPA’s narrow approach to regulating power sector greenhouse gases, compared to more than a dozen amicus briefs arguing the Trump administration’s policy is unlawfully weak. In addition, NAHB is not actually supporting EPA’s new policy, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. It takes no position on ACE while stressing it backs the agency’s repeal of its predecessor, the Obama-era Clean...