D.C. Circuit Judges Press EPA On Exclusion Of Biomass From ACE Rule

Appeals court judges at recent oral argument on the Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) coal-fired power plant greenhouse gas rule aggressively pressed the Trump administration on why it excluded use of biomass as a compliance option under the rule, probing the extent of a larger question of whether states will truly be able to make their own decisions on how to satisfy the regulation’s mandates. In the final segment of lengthy oral argument Oct. 8 in American Lung Association...