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January 17, 2018 - The Obama presidency was an era of drastic regulatory overreach.
EPA's so-called "Clean Power Plan" (CPP) is an outrageous example.
Congress spent a quarter of a century passing and amending the Clean Air Act. Obama's EPA then attempted to use it to shut down a massive portion of American power generation by branding carbon dioxide, the invisible, odorless gas you just exhaled, a pollutant, a use of the Act never intended by lawmakers.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is reexamining the entire issue. A full on rollback of Obama's disastrous and illegal CPP is possible. CFACT participated in the regulatory process by submitting a detailed comment to EPA. You can read our entire submission here.
Its legal problems are only the start. If left in place the CPP would impose massive costs and burdens on American energy production while accomplishing nothing meaningful for the environment or climate.
As CFACT states in our submission, "accepting the assertion that carbon dioxide does drive climate change, all the regulations that EPA is promulgating would prevent an undetectable and irrelevant 0.018 degrees Celsius (0.032 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, climatologists Patrick Michaels and Paul Knappenberger have calculated. The Clean Power Plan alone would achieve only a tiny fraction of those trivial benefits."
In short, President Obama's EPA bureaucrats stood the law on its head to engage in a bureaucratic exercise that is all pain, no gain.
The "Clean Power Plan" must go! |
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