Posted on 10/08/2017 9:31:35 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The Trump administration this week is expected to formally repeal the Clean Power Plan, taking direct aim at former President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy and delivering a major win for the coal industry.
A draft proposal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s looming decision, leaked late last week and posted online, says the plan — which would have limited carbon emissions from power plants and, in the process, drastically reduced the amount of coal-generated electricity in the U.S. — goes beyond the bounds of federal law and unnecessarily hikes energy prices for consumers.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, as Oklahoma’s attorney general, sued the federal government over the policy. He and others who took legal action contend the agency doesn’t have authority under the federal Clean Air Act to enact such sweeping changes to how power plants are run.
“The EPA proposes to determine that the CPP is not within Congress’s grant of authority to the agency under the governing statute. It is not in the interests of the EPA, or in accord with its mission of environmental protection consistent with the rule of law, to expend its resources along the path of implementing a rule, receiving and passing judgment on state plans, or promulgating federal plans in furtherance of a policy that is not within the bounds of our statutory authority,” the agency says.
The document concludes months of review of the policy, which was to become effective shortly after Mr. Pruitt took charge in February.
“The EPA is proposing to repeal the CPP in its entirety,” the agency says in its draft conclusion, the final version of which is expected to be released any day.
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WINNING!
#MAGA
Apart from further Supreme Court nominations...the Trump Energy Policy is the biggest boost for the United States.
As a result the USA will come to dominate world wide coal, oil, natural gas and raw materials for the plastics industries.
Don’t call it clean power plan. Just call it EPA overstep.
Good.
Very much winning. Thank you President Trump!!
Not a victory for coal, a victory for America and the American economy!
Many, many moons ago (a little indian lingo there) nature developed an extremely efficient method of storing energy from the Sun. It’s called c o a l!
The local co-op has already shuttered and demolished their coal-burning energy-producing facility in my community.
I’m sure it needed upgrades, but instead of investing, they walked away ...
Another article on the same topic:
E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/climate/clean-power-plan.html
““The EPA is proposing to repeal the CPP in its entirety,” the agency says in its draft conclusion”
Excellent!!!
Trump is keeping his promises and is indeed working to “Make America Great Again”
That and the appointment of conservative lower court judges.
Sierra Club has announced that they are suing to prevent overturn of the rule. They’ll find judges in the 9th circuit to put an injunction in place to keep it as it is.
YES!
So what? Its only a win for now. The next Democrat POTUS will put the restrictions back, and maybe even worse ones.
“So what? Its only a win for now. The next Democrat POTUS will put the restrictions back, and maybe even worse ones.”
Well, let’s just make sure there isn’t going to be another Democrat president — ever.
does everybody realize that the computer instantly changes a small case "o" in Obama to an upper case "O"...
but not trump...Clinton the same and gets the special sauce....
so from now on its going to be o bama or some configuration of that arse's name..
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