The Environmental Protection Agency acted within its authority when it issued a final cap-and-trade rule aimed to help phase down hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas, the DC Circuit said Friday.
“Congress enacted a detailed program for capping and trading HFC allowances, in which the EPA has discretion to decide how to allocate the allowances,” wrote Judge Florence Y. Pan in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit panel’s opinion.
The EPA had sought to put the case on hold to give the Trump administration time to review the Biden-era rule. The court denied that motion in a ...
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