is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue, the conservative-led court’s latest blow to federal regulations.
The Supreme Court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, has increasingly reined in the powers of federal agencies, including the EPA, in recent years. The justices have restricted the EPA’s authority to fight air and water pollution — includingthat limited the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.
The issue came to the court on an emergency basis, which almost always results in an order from the court without arguments before the justices. The EPA has said power plant emissions dropped by 18% last year in the 10 states where it has been allowed to enforce its rule, which was. Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. In California, limits on emissions from industrial sources other than power plants are supposed to take effect in 2026.
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