The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed President Joe Biden a surprise victory as it allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily enforce its rules regulating planet-warming pollution from power plants.

The Supreme Court has allowed a Biden administration rule aimed at limiting planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants to remain in place as legal challenges play out.

It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.

President Joe Biden’s contentious climate rule for power plants will take effect after the Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to block the regulation that is a core part of the administration’s efforts to strip greenhouse gases from electricity grid.

The EPA set new emissions standards for power plants two years after the Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration's rules.

The Supreme Court declined an emergency request to block Biden administration climate standards on power plant emissions.

Two conservative justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, said in a brief order they thought the challengers would likely win on at least some of their claims eventually.

The Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration's EPA to continue to enforces its regulation to attempt to curb carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.