The US Supreme Court has upheld greenhouse gas (GHG) control rules on power plants and other large stationary sources of emissions enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can require pollution controls on large emitting facilities but exempted smaller sources from the regulation.
In 2007, the Supreme Court had issued a landmark decision by allowing the EPA to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gas, considered as polluting, under the federal Clean Air Act. This decision had been contested by industry groups and states but the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the rules in June 2012, and the case was brought to the Supreme Court in October 2013.
The regulation does not affect the EPA's proposed 30% cut in CO2 emissions from thermal power plants, which became the cornerstone of the US climate change agenda in early June 2014.
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