The Southern Environmental Law Center filed suit Monday to block Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) from withdrawing Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Republicans and Democrats clashed at a hearing this week that examined EPA’s planned actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at power plants around the country. It served as yet another example of the political challenges inherent in addressing the climate crisis.
A new proposal by the EPA to limit planet-warming carbon emissions from power plants is expected to cut pollution in Pennsylvania, the state with the fourth-highest energy-related emissions in the country.
The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east.
