SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to One of EPA’s Most Stringent Proposed Climate Regs
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From The Daily Caller
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The Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear challenges against one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) key regulatory proposals.
The EPA introduced its “good neighbor plan” in March, with the policy designed to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, especially from manufacturing facilities and power plants; if finalized in its current form, the policy would impose tighter standards on 23 “upwind” states whose emissions are thought to cause air pollution in “downwind” states. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for four emergency challenges against the regulation in February 2024, according to the Supreme Court’s website.
The rule could cost American firms up to $910 million each year in compliance costs, and it would have particularly acute effects on industrial companies in the Midwest, according to the EPA. The agency estimates that the finalized rule would prevent about 1,300 premature deaths and avert 2,300 hospital and emergency room visits in 2026 alone, as well as provide billions of dollars’ worth of economic benefits. (RELATED: Biden EPA’s Air Quality Rule Proposal Would Crush American Industry And Jobs, Executives Warn)
BLACKMON: “The authority sought by the EPA in that regulation was so expansive that critics argued it would give the agency the ability to regulate every drainage ditch and even swimming pools in the country.”https://t.co/1vpP3Xewxs
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 28, 2023
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