President Donald J. Trump's announcing his plan to gut and replace the so-called Clean Power Plan will be greeted with cheers across America as states reassume control over their own emissions standards.
State attorneys general stood tall and won a historic stay at the Supreme Court of the United States to halt the CPP. But the fight didn't stop there.
The Obama administration's CPP was drafted in the shadow of the Paris Agreement, and designed more to win the praise of Europe's elite rather than to protect our environment, states' rights, and the American economy.
Under President Trump's new proposal, the EPA will refrain from setting an ironclad presumptive standard of performance; instead, hand-in-glove with the states, it will establish emissions guidelines for state plans that tackle greenhouse-gas emission from operating coal plants.
Specifically, the states will have three years to determine, using the EPA's "Best system of emission reduction" norms, where efficiencies can be found.
Instead of arbitrarily picking winners and losers, the president's replacement rule will safeguard jobs and provide breathing room for states to create innovative energy portfolios - all without spurring the artificial acceleration of alternative energy sources and overburdening our budgets.
Here, again, the state attorneys general deserve a great deal of credit for getting energized and organized to remind Washington that, absent state input and control, federal energy policy will bankrupt Americans and harm the environment.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/08/23/trumps_clean_energy_plan_reinvigorates_federalism_110771.html
State attorneys general stood tall and won a historic stay at the Supreme Court of the United States to halt the CPP. But the fight didn't stop there.
The Obama administration's CPP was drafted in the shadow of the Paris Agreement, and designed more to win the praise of Europe's elite rather than to protect our environment, states' rights, and the American economy.
Under President Trump's new proposal, the EPA will refrain from setting an ironclad presumptive standard of performance; instead, hand-in-glove with the states, it will establish emissions guidelines for state plans that tackle greenhouse-gas emission from operating coal plants.
Specifically, the states will have three years to determine, using the EPA's "Best system of emission reduction" norms, where efficiencies can be found.
Instead of arbitrarily picking winners and losers, the president's replacement rule will safeguard jobs and provide breathing room for states to create innovative energy portfolios - all without spurring the artificial acceleration of alternative energy sources and overburdening our budgets.
Here, again, the state attorneys general deserve a great deal of credit for getting energized and organized to remind Washington that, absent state input and control, federal energy policy will bankrupt Americans and harm the environment.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/08/23/trumps_clean_energy_plan_reinvigorates_federalism_110771.html
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