Obama’s Climate Plan Challenged by Industry at High Court
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The Obama administration today goes before the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time to defend climate-change policies that industry groups and Republican-led states say amount to a costly overreach of federal power.
Seven years after the court said the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, the justices are considering whether the agency misused that authority by imposing permit requirements on power plants and factories.