{"id":15286,"date":"2013-07-19T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15286"},"modified":"2013-07-19T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:38:14","slug":"federal-appeals-court-rules-against-oklahoma-and-oge-on-air-pollution-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/07\/19\/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-oklahoma-and-oge-on-air-pollution-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Oklahoma and OG&#038;E on Air Pollution Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.41176470588235%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/729458-12-9526-documents.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false\" title=\"OK vs. EPA (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><p>The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s decision to reject Oklahoma\u2019s air pollution plan and impose stricter standards was upheld Friday by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court in Denver.<\/p><p>&#8220;We conclude that the EPA has authority to review the state\u2019s plan and that it lawfully exercised that authority in rejecting it and promulgating its own,&#8221; the appeals court wrote in its 2-1 decision, which is embedded above.<!--more--><\/p><p>Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Oklahoma Gas & Electric had asked the appeals court to overturn the EPA\u2019s plan to rein in pollution at two of the utility\u2019s coal-fueled power plants. Pruitt and officials at OG&E said carrying out the EPA\u2019s plan would be unnecessarily expensive and infringed on the state\u2019s regulatory authority.<\/p><p>Pruitt and OG&E had asked the Denver-based court to overturn the EPA plan on grounds that the agency usurped the state&#8217;s authority and that the plan will require sizable expenditures on unnecessary technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s decision to reject Oklahoma\u2019s air pollution plan and impose stricter standards was upheld Friday by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court in Denver.&#8220;We conclude that the EPA has authority to review the state\u2019s plan and that it lawfully exercised that authority in rejecting it and promulgating its own,&#8221; the appeals court wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[553,554,532,499,552],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15293,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15286\/revisions\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}