Leslie Rutledge a loser in Trump fight to protect polluting power plants
Leslie Rutledge a loser in Trump fight to protect polluting power plants
January 20, 20217:09 am
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge lost her fight to support Donald Trump’s effort to aid coal-burning power plans. The New York Times reports:
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s plan to relax restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, paving the way for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to enact new and stronger restrictions on power plants.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia called the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule a “fundamental misconstruction” of the nation’s environmental laws, devised through a “tortured series of misreadings” of legal statute.