# EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal power plant climate rules

https://mins.news/en/item/63681

- Ars Technica, 2026-09-17 15:38 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/thousands-will-die-if-epa-repeals-power-plant-climate-rules-lawsuit-says/

> Days after finalizing its plan to eliminate climate rules for power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency was sued by environmental and public-health groups. They asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to review whether the repeal conflicts with the Clean Air Act, calling it short-sighted and warning it could leave the country’s largest source of industrial climate pollution unchecked.

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