EPA Coal Jobs Analysis Halted in Blow to Murray Energy

The EPA doesn’t have to complete a time-consuming, resource-intensive analysis of how air pollution regulations impact jobs after a federal appeals court nullified a lower court’s ruling requiring the report.

Murray Energy Corp. and its affiliates had sued the Environmental Protection Agency to force a review of its regulations, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said June 29 that the Clean Air Act doesn’t allow courts to force the agency to complete this review.

Gary Broadbent, a Murray spokesman, told Bloomberg BNA in an email that his ...