EPA Proposes Gutting Obama’s Signature Climate Rule To Lower Power Plant Pollution

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Just how many people must pay the supreme price of death for a few rich, greedy people to bank a few dollars? Stanley Sturgill, retired coal miner”

Even as the Trump administration’s environmental deregulatory agenda suffers repeated legal setbacks, the White House appears focused on shoring up its gains. The Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, an ultraconservative with a long history of ruling in favor of corporate interests, could jeopardize not only the 2007 ruling that helped establish CO2 as a pollutant but also a legal precedent known as the Chevron doctrine, which compels courts to grant agencies leeway when interpreting the legal mandate used to craft regulations. That could hinder a future EPA administration’s efforts to re-establish the Clean Power Plan or a rule like it.”

EPA Proposes Gutting Obama’s Signature Climate Rule To Lower Power Plant Pollution

The long-stalled Clean Power Plan never took effect, but the rule to replace it could cripple future efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.