The Clean Power Plan. As President Trump today pulls the first strings in unraveling President Obama's signature climate change regulation, he will claim he's saving Americans from skyrocketing electricity bills and putting coal miners back to work. Public Comment and Hearings on the Proposed Repeal.
S. power plants, the largest source of the pollution in the country that's driving dangerous climate change. It's easy enough to describe the basics of the Clean Power Plan, President Obama's sweeping new policy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from America's power plants. Of course it is: Just look at West Virginia, where whole Appalachian peaks have been knocked into valleys to get at the coal underneath and streams run orange with acidic water.
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.
When a federal appeals court heard the Clean Power Plan case this week, it was about much more than deciding the fate of the Obama administration's plan to curb carbon dioxide releases.
EPA's Clean Power Plan: Will it Work and Will it Be Upheld? Legal filings to protect the Clean Power Plan from repeal. The Clean Power Plan: Opportunities for an Equitable Energy Transition in Rural America.