ACE Opponents Ask Court To Reject EPA’s ‘Required’ Air Law Reading

Opponents of EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) greenhouse gas rule for coal-fired power plants are rebuffing the agency’s arguments for why the rule is lawful and the product of a required interpretation of the Clean Air Act, doubling down on their allegations of numerous legal flaws. The agency “fails to show that” air law section 111 “unambiguously required the agency to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP),” the much broader Obama-era rule that ACE replaced, according to a July 30...