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U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule

 File photo of the John Amos coal-fired power plant is seen behind a home in Poca

Most of the US federal appeals court on Tuesday to control the environment in the neighboring countries to reduce pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in some countries upheld.

Quite a few challenges for the organization of the Court of Appeal rejected the US Department of Colombia. But the government is a partial loss, the Court of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 2014, emissions of various countries and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the budget will be set.

When the government changed the rules of court, the type of budget that can remain intact, he said.

Competitors in the coal company Peabody Energy Corp., US power company Electric power company

On a 6-2 vote, the Supreme Court judges in the United States in April 2014 and that the application for the second time after the decision, the court upheld the Regulations.

Writing for the majority, to reduce emissions in the United States against the wind Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in terms of costs for the distribution of responsibility for the effective way to tell the EPA, the EPA is required to consider the question of the responsibility of the state is proportional to the emissions of each.

Obama administration to conduct a review before the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court, prompting the decision in August 2012 raised from the base.

A separate challenge to the organization of the second round of litigation.

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