Will The EPA's Final Clean Power Plan Make It Through The Courts?
The Electricity Journal, October 2015, Forthcoming
13 Pages Posted: 9 Sep 2015
Date Written: September 8, 2015
Abstract
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan is finally here, and it's a completely different rule than the one the agency proposed last year. In our article, we explain in detail how the EPA set the new emission standards in its Plan and analyze whether the EPA's changes will help the agency's lawyers defend the Plan in court. Although we believe the Plan is illegal, we speculate that the final Clean Power Plan will ultimately be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Keywords: Clean Power Plan, Clean Air Act, Greenhouse Gases, CO2, Carbon Dioxide, Electricity, Power Plant, Coal, Natural Gas, Renewable, Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency
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