Biden power plant rules

The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part I)

EPA says the electricity sector’s climate impacts aren’t significant. Really??

EPA has proposed a novel reading of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that would foreclose any regulation of CO2 emissions from power plants. EPA’s core argument is that the statute requires it to determine whether an industry’s emissions “cause or contribute significantly” to climate change and that the industry’s carbon emissions don’t meet that standard. …

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