The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fared well before the U.S. Supreme Court in recent Clean Air Act cases. But the streak ended Monday when the justices ruled that the EPA must consider the cost to industry in regulating mercury emissions from factories and coal plants.
“It was unreasonable for the agency to read the [Clean Air Act] to mean that cost is irrelevant to the decision to regulate power plants,” Justice Antonin Scalia said in announcing the Michigan v. EPA decision from the bench.
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