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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Daly

Supreme Court blocks enforcement of EPA's 'good neighbor' rule on downwind pollution

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The Environmental Protection Agency will not be able to enforce a key rule limiting air pollution in nearly a dozen states while separate legal challenges proceed around the country, under a Supreme Court decision Thursday.

The EPA’s “good neighbor” rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.

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