Coleman, GOP AGs ask U.S. Supreme Court to reverse decision upholding Biden soot pollution limits

By: Liam Niemeyer

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: August 31, 2026

Words: 360

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago


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Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and other Republican attorneys general are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower federal court’s decision that upheld more stringent air pollution limits established under the former Biden administration.

Under former President Joe Biden in 2024, the EPA lowered the amount of allowable soot pollution — fine particulate matter emitted into the air from burning fossil fuels through industry, cars and power …

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