The National Mining Association is joining the legal battle against EPA’s new rule to reduce climate pollution from the power sector. The trade association has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the new standards for coal and gas-fired power plants. This comes after Republican-led states and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association sued EPA in the same court. The mining association also plans to ask the D.C. Circuit to freeze the rule.

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