Laxalt files brief on constitutionality of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

This story has been updated to clarify the actions taken by the Attorney General’s office Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the constitutionality of the EPA’s regulation rule-making authority. Nevada’s brief explains how, under the Clean Air Act, individual states have primary decision-making authority to establish pollution emission standards for already-existing power plants, Laxalt’s office said in a statement. The EPA’s sw