States Launch New Bid To Block ESPS Incentive Plan While Stay In Effect

States opposing EPA's greenhouse gas rules for existing power plants are launching a new effort to block the agency's related Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP), arguing that the Supreme Court's stay of the GHG rule requires the agency to extend the proposed CEIP's comment deadline until the court decides if the underlying rule is lawful. In an Aug. 1 request from a coalition of 27 states led by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R), the states ask EPA to...