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Court scraps Trump administration power plant rules Steven Mufson, The Washington Post Jan. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - A federal appellate court on Thursday scrapped a Trump administration rule that eased limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants, and it effectively revived the Obama administration's tougher Clean Power Plan. In sweeping away the Trump administration's regulation, dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals raised hopes among environmental groups that the Biden admini...

Federal circuit court scraps Trump administration’s power plant rule Steven Mufson © J. David Ake/AP The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. A federal appellate court on Thursday scrapped a Trump administration rule that eased limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal- and natural-gas-fired power plants, and it effectively revived the Obama administration’s tougher Clean Power Plan. In sweeping away the Trump administration’s regulation, dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the decision by the D.C. C...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a Trump administration rule on carbon dioxide emissions, effectively restoring President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which limited those pollutants from power plants.

Source: Alan J. Nash The U.S. coal sector continued to struggle under the pro-coal Trump administration and will likely face new challenges on the political front under a Biden presidency and a U.S. Congress controlled by Democrats. While President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress rolled out several policies and legal actions favorable to the sector during his tenure, coal employment and production in the country hit record lows amid ongoing coal plant retirements. President-elect Joe Biden will enter office with ambitions to battle climate change among his top priorities, which could creat...

If U.S. Rep. Deborah Haaland is confirmed as interior secretary, the Native American from New Mexico could make a huge difference to Arizona and the West when her background and outlook are translated into policy. Experts in Native American affairs and Democratic Party congressional leaders including Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Tucson and Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico offer predictions for how Haaland’s tenure could affect federal lands and waters: Water rights. Tribes have made a lot of legal headway in establishing claims to water rights, including those from the Tohono O’Odham, the G...