The Supreme Court is stepping into a new case about Obama administration environmental rules, agreeing to review a ruling that upholds emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
The justices on Tuesday said they would hear arguments from industry groups and states that are challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules designed to clean up chromium, arsenic, acid gases, nickel, cadmium as well as mercury and other dangerous toxins.
The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld the rules in April.
One judge on the appeals court complained then that the EPA didn't consider costs in deciding whether regulation of hazardous air pollutants from power plants is appropriate.
Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) issued the following statement Tuesday regarding the Supreme Court's decision:
'I welcome the Supreme Court's decision to review the president's costly emissions caps that are already forcing reliable coal fired power plants to shut down, threatening to drive up electricity costs for Hoosiers,' said Coats. 'This administration has removed all accountability by shifting legislative authority from elected representatives to appointed bureaucrats. I hope the Court can restore proper cost benefit analysis to what has been an out of control EPA.'
Last year, Coats and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2014 that would have clarified a Clean Air Act exemption for plants unable to complete the necessary measures to comply with MATS by 2016.
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