The US supreme court has put on hold a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fuelled power plants, dealing a significant blow to President Barack Obama’s efforts to rein in climate change.
A coalition of 27 US states -most of them run by Obama’s Republican adversaries -is suing in a lower court to halt Obama’s `Clean Power Plan’, and petitioned the supreme court to suspend its implementation until the case is resolved.
The White House said it was disappointed in the ru ling, but convinced the ambitious plan to slash US emissions was based on a strong legal foundation, and would prevail.
The ruling, backed by five of the nine supreme court justices, halts the rollout of rules that require the power sector’s carbon dioxide emissions to be slashed by at least 32% compared to 2005 levels by the year 2030.
The far-reaching regulations issued last year by the Environmental Protection Agency are central to President Obama’s drive to reduce overall US greenhouse gas emissions.
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