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Supreme Court weighs new limits on EPA’s power to fight climate change

The Supreme Court will take up the question of whether the 1970 s-era Clean Air Act told the EPA it must focus narrowly on steps that might reduce pollution from old power plants, or instead whether the agency may regulate broadly by enforcing state-by-state targets on carbon pollution.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed whether to set strict limits on how the Biden administration can fight climate change through new regulations of plants that burn coal to produce electricity.

They did so even though Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has yet to issue a regulation involving carbon pollution from power plants.

Instead, the justices agreed to refight a regulatory battle from the Obama and Trump administrations.

At issue is whether

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