WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, taking on a case that could have a significant impact on future regulations from the Biden administration.
The court said it would hear appeals from Republican-led states and coal companies that are challenging a lower-court ruling that said the EPA had broad latitude to craft such regulations. That decision, issued in January, tossed out industry-friendly Trump administration rules on the grounds that they interpreted the Clean Air Act too narrowly.