Georgia’s Coal-fired Plant Closings Likely to Go on Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling

<p>Coal-fired power plant. Plant Bowen in Bartow County, Georgia. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder.</p>

Coal-fired power plant. Plant Bowen in Bartow County, Georgia. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder.

Environmental‌ ‌groups are calling on the U.S. Congress to take action after a U.S. Supreme Court limiting the ability to enforce carbon emission pollution dealt a blow in the fight against climate change. But as the nation’s president and environmental organizations sound alarms, some experts say the ruling likely won’t impede progress in Georgia toward closing air polluting coal-fired power plants and moving toward cleaner forms of energy.