WASHINGTON Industry
groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme
Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit
power-plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.
As
President Barack Obama pledges to act on environmental and other
matters when Congress doesn't, or won't, opponents of regulating carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cast the rule as a power grab of
historic proportions.
The court is hearing arguments Monday about a
small but important piece of the Environmental Protection Agency's
plans to cut the emissions - a requirement that companies expanding
industrial facilities or building new ones that would increase overall
pollution must also evaluate ways to reduce the carbon they release.
Environmental
groups and even some of their opponents say that whatever the court
decides, EPA still will be able to move forward with broader plans to
set emission standards for greenhouse gases for new and existing power
plants.
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