Dive Brief:

• General Electric, the owner of the Homer coal power plant at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) cross-state pollution rule, is installing scrubbers on the facility.
• Edison International, the former owner of the Homer power plant, other utility companies and 14 states want the Supreme Court to overturn the cross-state pollution rule, but several Supreme Court judges were cool to their arguments December 10.
• The scrubbers being put on the 1,884-MW Homer plant will help it cut mercury emissions along with the pollution targeted by the cross-state rule.

Dive Insight:

Some say delaying the EPA rules will save money. “The further out they can push it, the better,” said Rob Barnett, an analyst at Bloomberg Government. “Delay is always a good thing when you are on the industry side.”

But the lawsuits are also creating uncertainty for an industry that prefers clarity so it can draw up a roadmap for keeping the lights on.