Court Rejects EPA’s Rollback of Power Plant Emissions Rule

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Jan. 19 vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s Affordable Clean Energy, or ACE, rule for regulating power plant emissions, finding that the rule “hinged on a fundamental misconstruction” of the Clean Air Act. The agency finalized the rule in June 2019 replacing more stringent Obama-era restrictions…....