Clean Power Plan Trump. The Obama rules—known as the Clean Power Plan—attempted to phase out coal and encourage investment and innovation in cleaner energy sources. S. power plants, the largest source of the pollution in the country that's driving dangerous climate change.
Trump administration argues climate plan exceeded legal limits. The Trump EPA repealed the Clean Power Plan based on the Administration's assertion that the rule was illegal. It replaces the Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama's aggressive strategy to confront climate change that never took effect after the Supreme Many of those plants are likely to operate longer under the Trump administration rule because it gives states and utilities flexibility to design a plan.
The Affordable Clean Energy rule replaces the Clean Power Plan.
That question remains unsettled, because the Trump Administration earlier persuaded a federal court not to rule on that question, even though the court already had heard the case.
Yet, the Trump administration is now expected to release an executive order that would direct the EPA to roll back key protections provided under the Clean Power Plan, one of the cornerstones of the country's The president has not indicated that he has a replacement for the Clean Power Plan. The replacement plan is essentially the Trump administration's attempt to adhere to the letter of the law. Boom, gone," Donald Trump said about the clean power plan last year.