See also: Regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act
The Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant outside Page, Arizona
The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014.[1] The final version of the plan was unveiled by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2015.[2] Each state was assigned an individual goal for reducing carbon emissions, which could be accomplished how they saw fit, but with the possibility of the EPA stepping in if the state refused to submit a plan.[3] If every state met its target, the plan was projected to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation 32% by 2030, relative to 2005 levels, as well as achieving various health benefits due to reduced air pollution.
In 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that the EPA review the plan,[4][5][6][7] and withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.[8][9][10] Trump-appointed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announced the formal process to repeal the Clean Power Plan would begin on October 10, 2017.[11][12] The standard federal regulatory procedures and potential legal challenges to implement or change a regulation would likely take up to two years.[13][14][15]
In May 2019, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, who had replaced Pruitt, announced plans to change the way the EPA calculates health risks of air pollution, saying the change was intended to rectify inconsistencies in the current cost-benefit analyses used by the agency, calling it the Affordable Clean Energy rule.[16] On the last full day of the Trump administration, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the new rule, characterizing it as a 'fundamental misconstruction" of environmental laws. The ruling did not reinstate the Clean Power Plan; however, it did create the opportunity for the Biden administration to improve and clarify the rules.[17][18]
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(challenged draft CleanPowerPlan rule). On August 1, 2014, West Virginia and 12 states had filed suit to block the draft CleanPowerPlan rule. On June...
EPA's CleanPowerPlan – 111(d) Rules". www.epa.ohio.gov. Retrieved July 20, 2016. "PUCO chief says state in good position if CleanPowerPlan stay lifted...
challenge to the CleanPowerPlan, which is President Obama's "state-by-state effort to fight climate change by shifting away from coal power to cleaner-burning...
grid with clean, locally generated power. The method for this undertaking falls to the Energy Plan, a comprehensive plan to build a clean, resilient...
American Health Care Act of 2017. (Introduced 03/20/2017) Opposed the CleanPowerPlan. (added new bullet point) (On March 28, 2017) Supported the Reauthorization...
2019, the Trump administration replaced the Obama-era CleanPowerPlan with the Affordable Clean Energy rule, which did not cap emissions. In April 2020...
administration unveiled the CleanPowerPlan, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy designed to limit carbon dioxide emissions at power plants. It was expected...
global warming. Ebell has opposed the CleanPowerPlan developed by the Environmental Protection Agency. The plan entailed far-reaching regulations that...
A State Implementation Plan (SIP) is a United States state plan for complying with the federal Clean Air Act, administered by the Environmental Protection...
natural gas exports; his planned regulatory approach to reducing greenhouse pollution in the electricity sector, the CleanPowerPlan, was blocked by the U...
authority to institute a program such as the Obama-era CleanPowerPlan, Title VI of the IRA amended the Clean Air Act to explicitly designate carbon dioxide...
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical...
the grizzly bears long-term." The NPCA opposes the cutting of the CleanPowerPlan, which if cut would increase the levels of carbon emissions and sulfur...
by ordering the EPA to implement new carbon emissions limits. The CleanPowerPlan, unveiled in 2015, seeks to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by 26...
Protection Agency Scott Pruitt questioning Pruitt's decision to repeal the CleanPowerPlan, asserting that the repeal's proposal used "mathematical sleights of...
issuing the CleanPowerPlan to dictate the way electricity would be generated in the future. Chairman Whitfield referred to the CleanPowerPlan as "extreme"...
also joined Kansas in a suit challenging the Obama administration's CleanPowerPlan. In the latter case, the Supreme Court issued in 2016 a stay of implementation...
controversial oil pipelines and to require federal review of the Clean Water Rule and the CleanPowerPlan. He also invited American manufacturers to suggest which...
regulations violated the Clean Air Act. In response, EPA announced plans to propose such standards to replace the vacated Clean Air Mercury Rule, and did...
January 2019). "President Obama's CleanPowerPlan was expected to lead to a steep fall in US coal production. Now the plan has been blocked, and coal production...
proposed rulemaking to repeal the CleanPowerPlan. On June 27, 2017, Pruitt released a proposal to rescind the Clean Water Rule. On January 31, 2018,...
Pipeline. In 2015 the NBCC opposed the Environmental Protection Agency's CleanPowerPlan. In June 2015 NBCC released a report entitled Potential Impact of Proposed...
levels by 2025 and meeting or exceeding the targets of the federal CleanPowerPlan. The Alliance was formed on June 1, 2017, following the announcement...
called for withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Agreement, overturning the CleanPowerPlan, opening federal lands to exploitation for coal and oil development...
In November 2015, he voted in support of the Obama administration's CleanPowerPlan. In May 2014, in response to the National Climate Assessment, Wyden...
6 °F). These include phasing out coal-fired power plants, conserving energy, producing more electricity from clean sources such as wind and solar, and switching...
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Will Grow, Provide Options for CleanPowerPlan Compliance Based on Cost Competitiveness—Official Projections Fail...
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