"I would have considered this kind of request laughable just a few years ago, but given the way this court is operating - I don't laugh at anything anymore," says Sambhav Sankar, senior vice president for programs at the nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice.
The rules are a cornerstone of the Biden administration's efforts to meet climate goals set under the Paris agreement. They require coal plants expected to continue operating for at least 15 years to reduce their climate pollution by 90 percent.
This is another opportunity to gut the EPA's efforts to limit the pollution causing climate change. The court has already made it way tougher for federal agencies to regulate industry since Donald Trump packed it with conservative-leaning justices.
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