{"id":18182,"date":"2014-01-29T16:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=18182"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:55:47","slug":"oklahoma-attorney-general-asks-u-s-supreme-court-to-review-air-pollution-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/01\/29\/oklahoma-attorney-general-asks-u-s-supreme-court-to-review-air-pollution-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Attorney General Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Review Air Pollution Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n

The Grand River Dam Authority's coal-fired plant in Chouteau, Okla., which is impacted by the Regional Haze Rule.<\/p>\n<\/div>

State Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Oklahoma\u2019s largest utility company, OG&E, have been fighting<\/a> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Regional Haze Rule<\/a> since the federal agency rejected Oklahoma\u2019s plan to reduce sulfur dioxide pollution at its coal-fired power plants in 2011.<\/p>

In July 2013, a federal appeals court sided with the EPA<\/a> on the issue. But Pruitt today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the appeals court’s ruling<\/p>

Pruitt argues the EPA overstepped its authority by scrapping Oklahoma\u2019s pollution reduction plan.<\/p>

\u201cThis issue is simple: the Clean Air Act gives states the primary authority to design and implement plans to address visibility issues in federal wildlife areas,\u201d Pruitt says in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThe EPA exceeded its authority when it dismissed Oklahoma\u2019s plan in favor of a federal plan that will lead to utility rate increases of as much as 20 percent.\u201d<\/p>

The Regional Haze Rule is meant to clear the air at national parks and wilderness areas run by the federal government by reducing pollution at coal plants that impact them.<\/p>

Under the EPA’s plan for Oklahoma, that means making expensive upgrades to current coal plants or replacing them at a potential cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July 2013, a federal appeals court sided with the EPA on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[532,499,552,545],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182"}],"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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18182"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18197,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182\/revisions\/18197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}