The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) denied a request by West Virginia, 23 other states and fossil fuel interest groups to impose a judicial “stay” on the Clean Power Plan (CPP), saying that the plaintiffs have not “satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review.”

The CPP is a rule devised by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that requires each of the 50 states to cut carbon pollution from power plants 32% by 2030 that result from burning of mainly coal and contribute to global warming.