Justices’ Recent Stay Denials Unlikely To Close Expected Flood Of Petitions

The Supreme Court’s recent decisions denying critics’ requests to stay EPA’s methane and mercury emissions rules are unlikely to close what is expected to be a flood of emergency petitions to stay other agency rules that appellate courts deny, industry observers say, after the court stayed the agency’s Good Neighbor Plan (GNP) interstate ozone rule in June. One court observer says the Supreme Court in granting the GNP stay in Ohio v. EPA -- preceded only by its 2016...