The Clean Power Plan: A Legal and Political Journey

While coming rulings on abortion and guns have garnered lots of attention, the Supreme Court is also set to make another major decision in a less-publicized suit involving climate change.

The case, about how far the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, could affect the way the entire government makes rules and regulations.

Guest: Coral Davenport, a correspondent covering energy and environmental policy for The New York Times.

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Background reading: 

• Republican attorneys general and conservative allies have waged a multiyear campaign to tilt courts against climate action.

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