December 8th, 2024 by WCBC Radio

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office on Friday argued a challenge, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare unlawful the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released new rule on existing coal-, and new natural gas-powered plants.  That rule would force power plants fueled by coal or natural gas to capture smokestack emissions using currently unworkable technologies or shut down. The rule ignored 2022’s rebuke from the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA, which warned that the EPA should not use a narrow regulatory provision to force coal-fired power plants into retirement.