{"id":348167,"date":"2024-10-21T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348167"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:23:45","slug":"legal-fight-to-stop-epa-rule-closing-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348167","title":{"rendered":"Legal Fight to Stop EPA Rule Closing Power\u00a0Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update on ominous overreach by Biden\/Harris regime comes from Just the News  While the SCOTUS denies request to block EPA power plant rule, challengers vow to continue fight.<\/strong><\/a>  As explained below, EPA intends to require expensive and impractical CO2 Capture and Storage on all power plants using carbon fuels, thereby forcing shutdowns. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts say that if the rule is implemented, more than 5 million
people could experience blackouts, some lasting for 41 hours.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court ruled against a bid<\/a> to block the EPA\u2019s power plant rule<\/strong> while legal challenges make their way through the courts, but West Virginia, which is leading the coalition of states challenging the rule, vows the fight isn\u2019t over. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a brief order<\/a>, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch said that the applicants \u201chave shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits<\/strong> as to at least some of the challenges to the\u201d EPA\u2019s rule.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the justices explained, the stay wasn\u2019t needed<\/strong> because compliance requirements wouldn\u2019t begin until June 2025,<\/strong> which means the applicants wouldn\u2019t \u201csuffer irreparable harm\u201d before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decides the merits of the case. <\/strong>Injunctive relief<\/a>, such as sought here, requires clear and convincing proof that the harm be immediate and irreparable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lower court is expediting the case, the justices noted, meaning it would be resolved in the court\u2019s current term. Afterward, the case would still have time to return to the Supreme Court, if it\u2019s warranted. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA rule, which was finalized in April, requires<\/a> that coal-fired power plants be fitted with carbon capture technology controlling 90%<\/strong> of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2039,<\/strong> and new gas-fired power plants<\/strong> will need to do the same starting in 2035<\/strong>, depending on the amount of runtime they have.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Energy analysts Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling revealed<\/a> that the EPA failed to do a proper analysis of the impacts of the rule, and if implemented, over 5 million people will experience blackouts,<\/strong> some lasting for 41 hours. While the EPA<\/strong> has defended the rule and argues that carbon capture is \u201cwell proven,\u201d its own modeling showed it expected only one coal plant<\/a> and no gas plants to be fitted<\/strong> with the technology as far out as 2055.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two dozen states led by West Virginia filed a lawsuit against the EPA in May<\/a>,<\/strong> arguing that the agency exceeded its authority with the rule. Utilities and industry groups<\/a> also filed legal challenges<\/strong> to the rule. In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the parties\u2019 requests<\/a> to block the rules<\/strong> while the courts considered the challenges, and the court ruled the applicants wouldn\u2019t succeed on the merits of their case.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In court filings, the EPA noted that the lower court ruled the applicants are unlikely to succeed in arguing the agency exceeded its authority, and it stood by the rule and its carbon capture requirements, arguing that the technology has been \u201cadequately demonstrated<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a
statement on the high court\u2019s ruling that the fight isn\u2019t over.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not the end of this case: we will continue to fight through the merits phase and prove this rule strips the states of important discretion while forcing plants to use technologies that don\u2019t work in the real world,\u201d<\/strong> Morrisey said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2022<\/strong>, the Supreme Court had sided<\/a> with West Virginia and other states in a challenge to the Obama-era \u201cClean Power Plan<\/a>.\u201d Morrisey said that the high court had made clear limits to what the EPA can do<\/strong>, and the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cgreen new deal agenda\u201d is ignoring those limits.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis rule is yet another attempt of unelected bureaucrats to push something the law doesn\u2019t allow,\u201d<\/strong> Morrisey said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming joined the application to the Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Analysts say that if the rule is implemented, more than 5 million
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The Supreme Court ruled against a bid to block the EPA\u2019s power plant rule while legal challenges make their way through the courts, but West Virginia, which is leading the coalition of states challenging the rule, vows the fight isn\u2019t over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":348169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691831029,691818073,691831028,691818670],"class_list":{"0":"post-348167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-co2-capture-and-storage","9":"tag-epa","10":"tag-power-plants-2","11":"tag-supreme-court","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0co2-capture-and-storage.png?fit=1400%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1szB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":282674,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282674","url_meta":{"origin":348167,"position":0},"title":"Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/10\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A Home Depot parking lot is covered in snow in the Westbury neighborhood, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. 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