A highly complex Clean Air case before the U.S. Supreme Court could cost coal-fired power plants billions in new pollution control technology. It could also bring cleaner air. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young travels from the high court to coal country to learn what’s at stake in the battle over the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review program.
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