The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to place a hold on implementing a rule to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, the agency’s administrator says.
But EPA’s chief, Gina McCarthy, told state energy and air officials on Feb. 11 that she believes the fate of the regulation won’t alter the momentum in the U.S. toward cutting carbon emissions. “It doesn’t change the course of history,” she said.