On April 28, 2017, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) motions to hold the cases challenging the Clean Power Plan in abeyance while EPA undertakes its review of the regulations. The court ordered that the case be put on hold for 60 days and that EPA file status reports every 30 days. The court further ordered the parties to file supplemental briefs addressing whether the cases should be remanded to EPA rather than held in abeyance. Those briefs were to be submitted by May 15. The court deferred ruling on multiple motions requesting that petitions challenging EPA’s January 2017 denial of requests for reconsideration of the Clean Power Plan rule be severed and consolidated with the pending Clean Power Plan challenges. The D.C. Circuit held oral arguments in the Clean Power Plan case in September 2016. In Executive Order No. 13783 issued on March 28, 2017, President Trump ordered EPA to review the Clean Power Plan regulations and, if appropriate, to suspend, revise, or rescind them.

Challenge to EPA's final Clean Power Plan rule.

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