11 FEBRUARY 2016
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to issue a temporary stay on President Obama's Clean Power Plan. The move blocks the plan's implementation until a lower court can hear objections to the plan in June.
The Clean Power Plan, introduced last August, set goals for states to cut the amount of carbon emitted from power plants. The EPA directive asked states to come up with their own plans to meet their targets, whether that meant increasing reliance on renewable energy sources like solar and wind, or adding technology to coal-fired plants that could scrub carbon out of smokestack emissions.
Source: Popular Science