The U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency docket has seen a surge of activity as states and industry groups move to block the latest rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that mandates carbon-capture technology installation at coal power plants. Spearheading the opposition is West Virginia, accompanied by a coalition of Republican attorneys general. They argue that the EPA’s rule circumvents recent court decisions that have halted previous iterations of its anti-coal measures, notably the Supreme Court’s decision in the 2022 case of West Virginia v. EPA. The coalition contends that the EPA’s actions are an attempt to evade the judicial constraints placed on it in this earlier ruling.
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