US Supreme Court Backs Coal Profits Over Public Health
(COMMON DREAMS) Lauren McCauley — Placing the interests of Big Coal over public health, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to back the Environmental Protection Agency’s new power plant emissions standards. In a 5-4 ruling (pdf), the court argued that the Obama administration “unreasonably” interpreted its authority under the Clean Air Act by failing to account for the cost of compliance for polluting coal-fired power plants to meet the new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), which were finalized in 2012.