Challengers Want Court to Freeze New EPA Power Plant Standards

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is calling for a halt to the implementation of EPA’s latest carbon emission rules, according to a request filed late Monday.

The industry petitioner filed a stay motion at the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, bringing a laundry list of grievances against the standard—most notably that it flies against the authority laid out in the Clean Air Act.

“EPA’s overreach poses immense, immediate, and irreparable harms for Petitioner’s members, the electric grid, virtually all Americans, and the economy,” according to the motion.

The EPA’s regulation forces coal plants to ...