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Obama Administration's "Clean Power Plan" dealt a setback by the Supreme Court
2016-02-14 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: The Obama administrations Clean Power Plan suffered a setback on Tuesday when the Supreme Court granted a stay to the program. In a 5-4 decision, the court sided in favor of petitioning states, utilities and coal companies that claimed that the federal government was overreaching its powers when it attempted to establish a national plan to move away from fossil-fuel based power. Requests for the Supreme Court to impose the stay were submitted in January after an appeals court ruled that the plan...
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