More electric utilities are joining the legal fight against the Biden administration’s new rule to curb climate pollution from power plants.
Calling themselves Electric Generators for a Sensible Transition, a coalition of power companies and a national trade association is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to strike down EPA’s new rule to limit planet-warming emissions from existing coal- and new gas-fired power plants.
The lawsuit filed Friday comes on the heels of challenges filed in the D.C. Circuit by more than a dozen Republican-led states, a mining trade group and electric cooperatives.
Parties to the latest lawsuit include American Electric Power, one of the nation’s largest utilities with a traditionally outsize dependence on coal, and the American Public Power Association, which represents nonprofit, community-owned electricity providers.
