Environmentalists Join States Suing Over CPP Repeal In ACE Suit

August 14, 2019
Ten environmental groups have joined with states in suing EPA over its repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP), charging that its replacement, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, could have the perverse effect of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and conventional air pollution from coal-fired power plants in many states. The groups’ Aug. 14 petition , filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit comes one day after a group of 21 states and...


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