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Supreme Court reviews EPA plan to cut pollution that crosses state lines
- The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed skeptical of the EPA's anti-air pollution rule in 11 states, with multiple challenges delaying enforcement.
- Downwind states like Wisconsin face smog pollution from out-of-state sources, with upwind states and industry also impacted.
- The "good neighbor" rule to limit power plant emissions from spreading pollution is contentious, with costs and grid instability concerns raised.
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Supreme Court weighs blocking a federal plan to cut smog pollution
The trouble with air pollution is that it tends to travel — blowing downwind for hundreds of miles, entering the lungs of people living far from its source. Nitrogen oxides emitted by coal-fired power plants, for example, can waft across state lines and react with other chemicals in the atmosphere to form ozone, a potent pollutant and the main ingredient in smog. Last March, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule to rein in th…
·Seattle, United States
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Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA's 'good neighbor' rule on power plant pollution
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.
·Pittsburgh, United States
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