"The Department of Justice's environmental division is under siege.

Almost every U.S. EPA regulation faces a court challenge, either by industry groups claiming it's too stringent or by environmentalists who say it doesn't go far enough.

The 400 attorneys of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) are handling 6,000 cases or investigations. And its biggest test is just beginning: defending President Obama's standards for power plants' emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, a pillar of the administration's climate change agenda due to be finalized this year."

Jeremy P. Jacobs reports for Greenwire March 24, 2015. [2]