Supreme Court Allows EPA Power Plant Pollution Curbs for Now (1)

The US Supreme Court let the Environmental Protection Agency move ahead with its stringent new emissions limits for power plants, rebuffing businesses and Republican-run states that complained the rule will impose exorbitant compliance costs.

The high court order is a major boost for Biden administration efforts to tackle climate change through new regulations on an industry that accounts for about a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Opponents, including trade groups and companies in the power and mining industries, were seeking to halt the rule while a legal challenge goes forward at a federal appeals court and, in all ...