Appeals Court Upholds EPA's Mining Restraints

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4. They already lost a big one at the Supreme Court. The Kochroaches dissented, naturally:

Supreme Court hands major EPA victory to Obama administration

The ruling marks an important step to reducing power plant pollution. Scalia and Thomas (predictably) dissented...

The Supreme Court has given the Environmental Protection Agency an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states.

The court’s 6-2 decision Tuesday means that a rule adopted by EPA in 2011 to limit emissions from plants in more than two-dozen Midwestern and Southern states can take effect. The pollution drifts into the air above states along the Atlantic Coast and the EPA has struggled to devise a way to control it.

Power companies and several states sued to block the rule from taking effect, and a federal appeals court in Washington agreed with them in 2012.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court’s majority opinion. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented...*

Read more:


http://www.salon.com/2014/04/29/supreme_court_hands_major_epa_victory_to_obama_administration/

*Afterall, they were so proud of their new uniforms:



And they didn't want to let their sponsors down...

to DonViego:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014791145

We'll see how this one goes... I'm sure Rand *mountain top removal is good for the environment* Paul will be right there to help...