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Clean-energy debate pitted ambition against legal worries
Clean-energy debate pitted ambition against legal worries
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post
8/2/15
Four weeks before the official rollout, the news for President Obama’s signature regulation on climate change suddenly went from bad to abysmal.
Already, the Senate’s top Republican was urging a nationwide boycott of the carbon-cutting proposal known as the Clean Power Plan. Fourteen states had joined in a lawsuit seeking to block the rule even before it became final. Then came a blow from the Supreme Court: a surprise June 29 decision blocking the White House’s previous attempt at curbing pollution from coal-burning power plants.
....SNIP....
White House officials pressed ahead with the proposal, ultimately deciding on an altered version that will be formally adopted at a ceremony Monday. But while the revised rule expresses lofty aims, the details reflect real, practical concerns about the battles still to come: an expected onslaught of litigation and legislation designed to derail the bill....
Read the rest of this sad tale here~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/internal-debate-over-clean-energy-plan-pitted-ambition-against-legal-worries/2015/08/02/9e0c1c94-3966-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post
8/2/15
Four weeks before the official rollout, the news for President Obama’s signature regulation on climate change suddenly went from bad to abysmal.
Already, the Senate’s top Republican was urging a nationwide boycott of the carbon-cutting proposal known as the Clean Power Plan. Fourteen states had joined in a lawsuit seeking to block the rule even before it became final. Then came a blow from the Supreme Court: a surprise June 29 decision blocking the White House’s previous attempt at curbing pollution from coal-burning power plants.
....SNIP....
White House officials pressed ahead with the proposal, ultimately deciding on an altered version that will be formally adopted at a ceremony Monday. But while the revised rule expresses lofty aims, the details reflect real, practical concerns about the battles still to come: an expected onslaught of litigation and legislation designed to derail the bill....
Read the rest of this sad tale here~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/internal-debate-over-clean-energy-plan-pitted-ambition-against-legal-worries/2015/08/02/9e0c1c94-3966-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html
....& let's hope this is true~
At the same time, the plan appears capable of achieving its goals of encouraging greater adoption of renewable energy as well as dramatic reductions in heat-trapping carbon pollution over the next 15 years, said S. William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, an independent group that represents state regulators.
“EPA has struck the right balance,” Becker said. “The agency has strengthened its legal defense of the program without sacrificing environmental integrity.”
“EPA has struck the right balance,” Becker said. “The agency has strengthened its legal defense of the program without sacrificing environmental integrity.”
