GOP States Ask Supreme Court For Emergency Stay Of Tougher MATS

A group of mainly GOP-led states is asking the Supreme Court to stay EPA’s toughened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants, citing “irreparable” harm and a lack of quantified benefits, while also targeting an appellate court’s “failure to learn” in summarily denying stay requests for this and other power sector rules. “With one sentence, and without any indication of why it determined a stay was unwarranted, the D.C. Circuit denied six motions and disregarded thousands of pages...