Twenty-two states including Pennsylvania, California and New York on Tuesday sued to block a Trump administration plan to roll back carbon pollution limits on fossil fuel-dependent power plants.

The petition asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan, published in the Federal Register in July, to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and replace it with what critics contend is a more business-friendly proposal.

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