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Clarence Thomas Breaks With Supreme Court Justices in New Decision

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Justices ruled in a 7 -1 vote that it was not necessary to grant an emergency stay request from West Virginia , Indiana and dozens of other states to halt the EPA rule.

Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas broke with the rest of the court in the decision, according to the court's opinion.

The EPA rule requires that new and exciting coal and natural gas power plants cut or capture 90 percent of their climate pollution by 2032 .