Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey are currently heading a coalition of 29 states and state agencies that are seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court put the brakes on President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which is designed to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. This action follows an earlier request for a similar stay that was rejected by a lower federal court. The group of applicants argues that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule fundamentally changes the nation’s energy policy in violation of federal law.
On Jan. 22, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied petitions to stay the Obama administration’s new plan. The Clean Power Plan calls for broad new requirements to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Under the new plan, states have until 2018 to submit their compliance plans.
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