One of Trump’s own appointees sided with his fellow appellate judges in shutting down the outgoing president’s Affordable Clean Energy rule.
A coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo., in July 2018. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) On the last full day of his presidency, Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to shut down Obama-era clean air protections targeting power plants went up in smoke in the D.C. Circuit.
Adding salt to the wound, the federal appeals court’s 182-page opinion released Tuesday was unsigned, written by a mostly unanimous three-judge panel. U.S. Circuit Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee who joined the court just a month before the case was heard, penned only a partial dissent.
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