The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to hit pause on two sprawling legal fights over Biden-era EPA rules to control smog and rein in planet-warming emissions from the power sector.
The Justice Department filed a request Wednesday evening for a 60-day stay in litigation over the agency’s 2024 rule to limit emissions from new gas-fired and existing coal-fired power plants.
The new leadership at EPA is still in the process of reviewing the issues presented in the case, DOJ attorneys told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
“To provide new leadership with sufficient time to familiarize themselves with these issues and determine how they wish to proceed, the government respectfully requests that the Court withhold issuing an opinion and place this case in a brief abeyance,” they wrote in the unopposed request to the court.
