The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can no longer decide how to regulate coal-fired power plants and that that task is now in the hands of Congress.
RICHMOND, Texas -- Ted Tankard has lived a few miles from the W.A. Parish power plant in Richmond for over 20 years. Its property is pretty hard to ignore. So is everything that comes billowing out of it.
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can no longer decide how to regulate coal-fired power plants and that that task is now in the hands of Congress. The problem is, environmentalists said, waiting on two sides of the aisle to come together and agree on how to curb climate change could waste valuable time we or the planet don't have.
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