Why did the Clean Power Plan fail? Samantha Privett

Clean Power Plan A regulation tied to the Clean Air Act Enforces cutting carbon pollution for power plants Implementing state carbon cutting goals Effort to maintain a national consistency in reducing carbon pollution Proposed for the US to lead in the global efforts on addressing climate change https://archive.epa.gov/epa/cleanpowerplan/clean-power-plan-existing-power-plants-regulatory-actions.html

Climate Change: The EPA has gone overboard For Against https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc7KsgZt0TQ

Timeline February 2016 September 2016 June 2014 August 2015 EPA releases the Clean Power Plan (a regulation to the Clean Air Act) August 2015 Initial compliance plans requested October 2015 The Federal Register has the final Clean Power Plan published February 2016 The U.S. Supreme Court halts the Clean Power Plan implementation September 2016 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit holds an en banc hearing https://bipartisanpolicy.org/clean-power-plan-timeline-of-key-events/

Trump’s Executive Order March 2017

Discussion: Why did the Plan fail? Is the Clean Power Plan’s main purpose to use “generation shift” to cut pollution? Is it the EPA’s job to regulate the power plants for carbon dioxide emission? If not, who should be responsible for checking these emissions? A cap-and-trade bill was proposed by the Obama administration in 2009. Is this just another attempt by Congress to address carbon pollution through top-down strategies? Who actually suffers from the Clean Power Plan? http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/303719-fact-checking-opponents-of-the-clean-power-plan