Ep. 11: Powering Down the Clean Power Plan
Last week — to the surprise of no one — Donald Trump issued an executive order to begin dismantling the Clean Power Plan. In this week's episode of Trump on Earth, we
Ep. 11: Powering Down the Clean Power Plan
Last week — to the surprise of no one — Donald Trump issued an executive order to begin dismantling the Clean Power Plan. In this week's episode of Trump on Earth, we'll talk about what this means with E&E News’ Emily Holden and former EPA official Janet McCabe.
The Clean Power Plan is a historic regulation created by the Obama administration in 2015 that, for the first time ever, regulates the amount of carbon dioxide that American power plants — the country’s biggest source of greenhouse gases — can produce. But the plan never really got off the ground. Shortly after its creation, more than a dozen states sued the Environmental Protection Agency over the rule, and the Supreme Court has now put the Clean Power