Republican-led states sue to block the Clean Power Plan (West Virginia v. EPA)

Summary

The day the Clean Power Plan hit the Federal Register, about two dozen states sued to stop it. West Virginia's attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, led. This was not a congressional vote. It was Republican state AGs taking the rule to court. In February 2016, the Supreme Court stayed the rule. The litigation is how the Plan was frozen before a later administration repealed it.