The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the Bush Administration's Environmental Protection Agency regarding the exemption of coal-fired power plants from the Clean Air Act. According to The New York Times this effectively paves the way for new regulations on emissions from the coal plants.

A petition granted by the Environmental Protection Agency calls for a review of a memorandum that disallows carbon dioxide emissions to be considered in the federal approval process for power plants.

Read the article in the New York Times.