CPP Backers Aggressively Push For D.C. Circuit To Issue Merits Decision

States and environmental groups that support the Obama EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) are aggressively urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on the merits of the power plant greenhouse gas rule in the long-pending lawsuit, strongly pushing back against EPA and other opponents' arguments that the case is moot. In a Sept. 21 filing in West Virginia, et al. v. EPA, et al., states led by New York and environmental groups led...