Gordon responds to Supreme Court order on power plant rule

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Gov. Mark Gordon has responded to an announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to issue an emergency stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan 2.0 rule.

In May, Wyoming and 23 other states challenged the power plant regulations, which target Wyoming’s coal and natural-gas fired power plants.

In the court’s order, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch stated, “The applicants have shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits as to at least some of their challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule.”

“While it’s disappointing the Supreme Court declined to immediately halt this overly expansive and unlawful rulemaking that directly attacks Wyoming’s core energy industries, be assured we will continue to pursue this critical litigation in the federal courts,” Gordon said in a news release.

“Regrettably, our utilities are still required to assume the regulations will be in effect until the lower courts rule, only increasing the uncertainty of their future,” he added. “We can hope the musings of the two justices who recognized the merits of our case will hold sway in a timely positive resolution of this challenge.”

This story was published on October 18, 2024.