WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general on Thursday led a coalition of 25 states and cities in a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to block its repeal of greenhouse gas emission limits for power plants.
Attorney General Letitia James and states including California and Michigan filed a lawsuit against the EPA in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to challenge its repeal of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, which required US power plants to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by installing carbon capture technology.
• “Dismantling these protections is a betrayal of American families, and the stakes are too high to allow this administration to once again put profits over people,” James said.
• Power plants are the second biggest source of US greenhouse gas emissions after vehicles and account for one-quarter of US carbon dioxide emissions.
• The coalition filed a petition to strike down the repeal and notifying EPA of that it will sue over the agency’s continued failure to fully regulate pollution from existing natural gas power plants.
• The coalition said the EPA revoked the regulations without considering “reasonable alternatives” or factoring in the health and climate costs of allowing more pollution into the atmosphere.
(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; editing by David Gaffen)
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