Judge Rejects DOE's Coal Plant Emergency Order Issued Under Trump Administration
A court has thrown out a Department of Energy declaration that kept a coal-fired power plant running past its planned closure, finding the claimed energy emergency did not exist, according to Ars Technica.
A federal judge has rejected an emergency order issued by the U.S. Department of Energy that had forced the extended operation of a coal-fired power plant, according to a report by Ars Technica.
The Department of Energy, during the Trump administration, had declared an energy emergency as the legal basis for keeping the coal plant running beyond its scheduled retirement date, the report said.
According to Ars Technica, the court found that the emergency cited by the department did not actually exist, and on that basis threw out the forced extension.
The ruling represents a setback for the administration's use of emergency declarations to intervene in decisions about power plant retirements, the report indicated.
Ars Technica's report did not specify further details about the plant's location, the identity of the judge, or the broader implications of the ruling for other coal facilities that may have received similar extensions.
This report is based on information provided by Ars Technica; additional details about the case, including specific parties involved and the court's full reasoning, were not included in the available source material.
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- Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge — Ars Technica
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