The slap in the face delivered by a US court on the last day that Donald Trump was in office, is more likely to sting Andrew Wheeler, the about to be replaced administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The US Court of Appeals has ruled that Wheeler’s biggest attack on environmental protection is not legal, something that no doubt will see Wheeler off Trump’s Christmas tweet list. In a long, highly technical and unanimous summing up from the three judges presiding, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule was quashed. For those unfamiliar with it, it was an attempt by Wheeler to allow coal plants to continue to pollute as long as they addressed a limited number of areas of efficiency…