The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury. The justices did not detail their reasoning in the orders, which came after a flurry of emergency applications to block the rules from industry groups and Republican-leaning states. The high court is still considering challenges to a third Environmental Protection Agency rule aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants. He also looked ahead to the still-undecided challenges to the power plant rule. "The court should do the same with the effort to block EPA's power plant carbon pollution standards, which comply with the very directions the court gave it in 2022," Doniger said.

Source: Economic Times October 06, 2024 18:06 UTC