In April, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule for the Clean Air Act’s pollution limits, which mandates that all coal-fired power plants must cut 90% of their carbon emissions by 2032.
The Supreme Court rejected West Virginia’s request on Wednesday to halt the implementation of the EPA emissions standard while it is being challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, along with a number of other Republican-led states.
Justice Samuel Alito did not participate in the decision, while Justice Clarence Thomas would have stopped the EPA regulation, according to the stay order refusal that News examined.
