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US House, Senate Members Tell Appeals Court That Clean Power Plan Is Illegal

Renewable Energy World: Members of the U.S. House and Senate, largely from the Republican side of the aisle, have told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, published in final form last October, is illegal and should be struck down.

Led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., 34 senators and 171 house members filed an amicus brief on Feb. 23 at the appeals court in the case of State of West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

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