NMA Moves to Supreme Court for CPP 2.0 Stay Request

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Mining Association (NMA) issued the following statement on the D.C. Circuit Court's decision not to grant a stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) CPP 2.0 in State of West Virginia, et al v. EPA, et al. The NMA will now petition the Supreme Court for a stay.

Rich Nolan, NMA president and CEO, said, "We're obviously disappointed that the Court failed to recognize the risks associated with this damaging rule and plan to seek an emergency stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. The stakes couldn't be higher. The nation's power supply is already being pushed to the limit and this rule flies in the face of what the nation's utilities, grid operators and grid reliability experts tell us is needed to maintain grid reliability. While the EPA is trying to tear down the dispatchable generating capacity we have and dearly need with unworkable mandates, electricity demand is soaring and the obstacles to building new generating capacity and enabling infrastructure are mounting. We are headed for a crisis of the EPA's making. The Supreme Court recognized the irreparable harms associated with the original Clean Power Plan and appropriately stayed that rule. We are confident that the Supreme Court will do the same here and ultimately reject EPA's generation-shifting mandates."

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