The US Supreme Court let the Environmental Protection Agency move ahead with its stringent new emissions limits for power plants, rebuffing businesses and Republican-run states that complained the rule will impose exorbitant compliance costs.
The high court order is a major boost for Biden administration efforts to tackle climate change through new regulations on an industry that accounts for about a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Opponents, including trade groups and companies in the power and mining industries, were seeking to halt the rule while a legal challenge goes forward at a federal appeals court and, in all likelihood, the Supreme Court. A delay might have pushed the deadlines back by two years.
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