Kirti Datla, Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Earthjustice: “They explained that it would be, basically, a waste of time to look at these older regulations because the electricity sector had already met the targets in the Obama-era regulation a decade ahead of the schedule in that regulation, even though it never even went into effect.”
Alarmed by President Trump’s plans to scrap the Clean Power Plan, hundreds turn out to address officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Hear are some of their stories.
Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355, Repeal of Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
By repealing the Clean Power Plan and slow-walking a possible substitute, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt once again sides with polluters against climate action
As unprecedented hurricanes and wildfires rage across the United States, President Trump and Scott Pruitt try to ensure the U.S. does nothing to rein in climate change.
Mientras que huracanes e incendios forestales de proporciones históricas afectan a miles de estadounidenses, el presidente Trump y Scott Pruitt tratan de asegurar que los Estados Unidos no haga nada para controlar el cambio climático.
Public Health and Environmental Respondent-Intervenors respectfully submit this supplemental brief in response to this Court’s order of April 28, 2017, ECF No. 1673072, in which the Court requested briefing on whether it should remand, rather than hold in abeyance, the consolidated cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (“New Source Rule”), 80 Fed. Reg. 64,510 (Oct. 23, 2015).
Public Health and Environmental Respondent-Intervenors hereby respond to the Court’s April 28, 2017, order requesting briefs on whether these consolidated cases concerning the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, 80 Fed. Reg. 64,662 (Oct. 23, 2015), should be “remanded to the agency rather than held in abeyance.” ECF No. 1673071.
Opposition to EPA's motion to delay in D.C. Circuit – EPA's January 2017 decision rejecting fossil fuel interests' requests that the agency reconsider the Clean Power Plan
Environmental Groups Oppose New Source Carbon Standards Delay
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