US supreme court seems skeptical about letting EPA enforce pollution rule
by Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JTDZ)
Conservative majority appears unsympathetic to environmental agency's good neighbor' rule for areas downwind of smog sources
The supreme court's conservative majority seemed skeptical on Wednesday as the Environmental Protection Agency sought to continue enforcing an anti-air-pollution rule in 11 states while separate legal challenges proceed around the country.
The EPA's good neighbor" rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.
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