Supreme Court rejects a series of emergency appeals from Republican-led states and the coal and electric power industries.

It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to put on hold a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants at the request of numerous states and industry groups in another major challenge to President Joe Biden's efforts to combat climate change.

The Supreme Court declined to block an EPA rule limiting carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, allowing the regulation to go into effect.

Some justices indicated that states and industry groups still have a good shot at defeating EPA's rule curbing power plant emissions.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed President Joe Biden a surprise victory as it allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily enforce its rules regulating planet-warming pollution from power plants.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal and gas plants, despite opposition from 27 states and industry groups. The rule, intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions,

The Supreme Court appeared ready in oral arguments Wednesday to restrict the EPA’s ability to set broad water quality standards for sewage and other systems as part of a challenge from San Francisco to the agency’s powers under the Clean Water Act.