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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently “heard oral arguments for and against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP),” but supporters of the plan expressed confidence that it will be upheld, nawindpower.com reports. The CPP was finalized in August 2015, but “a coalition of states, led by West Virginia and Texas, filed a lawsuit that claimed the CPP could have ‘devastating impacts upon the states and their citizens.” The federal court rejected those states’ request for a stay, but the Supreme Court later granted the stay (see our February 29, 2016 blog post). Joanne Spalding, chief climate counsel for the Sierra Club, said the Sierra Club will “remain confident that the Clean Power Plan will be implemented to protect the health of American families,” according to the article. Similarly, Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), noted that “[t]he clean energy train has already left the station in the form of affordable renewable energy already making major carbon-pollution reductions today” and that AWEA expects the CPP will “ultimately be upheld by the courts.” For more, read the full article.