Environmental groups and a power company will clash in court today over a coal-fired power plant that could be built in southwest
Environmentalists ask the judge to reconsider the state’s decision to issue an air pollution permit to the power company. They say the permit doesn’t regulate the plant’s carbon dioxide emissions.
The majority of scientists say carbon dioxide is the leading cause of global warming.
The case is among the first challenges against coal-fired plants filed since the Supreme Court’s April 2007 ruling that carbon dioxide could be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
