TREE NEWS update: The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the Department of Energy lacks authority under federal law to use emergency powers to stop the closure of the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan. The court sided with Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and public interest groups, finding the DOE misread the law’s meaning of “emergency intervention” and that no short-term crisis exists to override state grid authority.
US Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running
AI take
The ruling is a jurisdictional loss for federal emergency authority over generation retirement, not a verdict on coal's economics. It reinforces that states and regional grid operators retain the primary say over which plants close, which matters for how retirement timelines get contested. Whether DOE pursues other legal pathways, or whether states face renewed pressure to keep uneconomic units online, is the open question.
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