Supreme Court Agrees to Review EPA Rule Targeting Pollution That Crosses State Lines

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed June 24 to review an Environmental Protection Agency rule vacated by a lower court that aimed to reduce pollution that crosses state lines, drawing praise from advocates of the tough emissions regulation (EPA v. EME Homer City Generation LP, U.S., No. 12-1182).

The court will review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s 2012 decision to strike down the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, a regulation that would have required 28 states in the East, Midwest, and South to reduce power plant emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide to ...