Top Court Takes Up Climate Challenge in Pre-Summit Jolt to Biden

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, agreeing to hear appeals from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states.

The appeals seek to prevent President Joe Biden’s administration from imposing the type of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to put in place when fellow Democrat Barack Obama was president. The Supreme Court put Obama’s Clean Power Plan on hold in February 2016, and it never took effect.

The conservative-controlled court will review a federal appeals court decision that critics say gave the EPA sweeping authority to reshape key ...