Environmentalists Seek High Court Order For CPP Critics To Justify Stay

Environmentalists are asking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to require opponents of the Obama EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) utility greenhouse gas rule to explain why the court's almost two-and-a-half year stay of the rule should remain in effect, noting that the legal challenges to the rule that prompted the stay have halted. Several environmental groups that support the rule raised the issue in a July 27 letter to Roberts in the case West Virginia, et al. v. EPA,...