Court Blocks Trump-era emergency to keep coal plant running
TL;DR
A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration cannot invoke a 202(c) emergency under the Federal Power Act to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant open, finding the claimed emergency vague and not the kind Congress intended, and warning the order disrupts normal grid assessment and market signals while costing taxpayers hundreds of millions without averting a real shortfall.
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- A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open grist.org
- Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running The New York Times
- Court rules that Trump can’t force a Michigan coal plant to keep running Canary Media
- D.C. Circuit Appeals Court overturns order keeping Michigan’s J.H. Campbell Plant open WWMT
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