Exclusive: EPA
Document Proposes to Eliminate Clean Power Plan ‘in Its Entirety’
by Sean Moran 6 Oct 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to repeal the agency’s Obama-era climate
change program, the Clean Power Plan (CPP), “in its entirety,”
according to a document obtained by Breitbart News.
The 43-page document, titled, “Repeal of Carbon
Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stations Sources: Electric Utility
Generating Units” details how the EPA plans to repeal CPP through a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). This version of the document obtained by Breitbart
News remains subject to change through inter-agency review.
The agency contends that the EPA, under former
Administrator Gina McCarthy, exceeded its authority to regulate carbon
emissions as stipulated by the Clean Air Act. The document proposes to
eliminate the Clean Power Plan, and then suggested that they might release an
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that will reflect a more
thoughtful and modest approach to regulating air pollution given the EPA’s
limited statutory authority.
President Donald Trump signed an
executive order in March ordering a review of the Clean Power Plan as well as
other environmental regulations. Instead of Obama’s stifling energy
regulations, the Trump administration will promote policies that favor American
“energy dominance.”
The Obama administration designed the Clean Power Plan to
lower carbon emissions from existing power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below
2005 levels. Conservatives widely viewed the Clean Power Plan, along with the
Paris Climate Treaty, to be part of Obama’s “war on coal.”
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt criticized the Clean Power
Plan earlier this year, calling the regulation, “unlawful.” Pruitt said, “This is an
effort to undo the unlawful approach the previous administration engaged in,”
he said of the president’s executive order, “and to do it right going forward
with the mindset of being pro-growth and pro-environment.”
Myron Ebell, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI)
director of Energy and Environment programs and Trump administration EPA
transition chair, argued that the Clean Power Plan remains illegal and would do
devastating harm to the average American. Ebell said,
“In particular, we applaud his action to begin withdrawing the EPA’s greenhouse
gas rules, including the so-called ‘Clean Power’ Plan. These rules, which are
clearly illegal, would raise electric rates for consumers significantly and do
immense economic damage to the heartland states where U.S. manufacturing is now
concentrated.”
The EPA document declares that they are “proposing to
repeal the CPP in its entirety.”
The EPA contends in the document, under former
Administrator Gina McCarthy, exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean
Air Act to force states and power plants to comply with the Clean Power Plan’s
regulation to lower carbon emissions.
Over 150 interested parties sued the EPA, including 27
states, 24 trade associations, 37 rural electric co-ops, and three labor unions
sued the former EPA administration in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,
arguing that the CPP was unconstitutional. A bipartisan group of 34 Senators
and 171 members of the House filed an amicus brief arguing that the CPP was
illegal and skirted Congress’ authority to legislate on environmental issues.
In February 2016, the Supreme Court stayed the
implementation of the CPP pending further review. On August 8, 2017 the court
issued an order holding the case in abeyance for a 60-day review and directed
the EPA to file status updates at 30-day intervals.
In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive
order which the document cites, which affirms the “national interest to promote
clean and safe development of our Nation’s vast energy resources, while at the
same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy
production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation.”
The Executive order also directed the EPA to “immediately
review existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use of
domestically produced energy and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind,
those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources beyond
the degree necessary to protect the public interest or otherwise comply with
the law.” Subsequently, the EPA conducted a review of its environmental
regulations, including the agency’s Clean Power Plan.
The EPA contends that their initial review of the CPP
“raised substantial concerns that the CPP is not consistent with the policy articulated
in Section 1 of the Executive Order.”
The EPA explained, “For example, numerous States,
regulated entities and other stakeholders warned that the CPP threatened to
impose massive costs on the power sector and consumers; invaded traditional areas
of state regulation over the mix of energy generation within their borders,
departed radically from prior regulatory practice and longstanding reading of
the statute; and did not adequately ensure the national interest in affordable,
reliable electricity, including from coal generation.”
The EPA contends in the proposed rulemaking that the
EPA’s ability to “revisit existing regulations is well-grounded in the law.”
The document cites Chevron U.S.A. v. NRDC, Inc., National Cable &
Telecommunications Ass’n v. Brand X Internet Services, and the Clean Air
Council v. Pruitt cases to argue that the agencies have broad discretion to
reconsider agency regulations at any time.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) contains a
cost-benefit analysis that examines repealing Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The EPA
estimates that repealing CPP would provide up to $33 billion in avoided
compliance costs in 2030.
EPA Administrator Pruitt’s Scott decision to eliminate
Obama’s Clean Power Plan serves as part of President Trump’s agenda to unravel
Obama’s environmental legacy and pursue an America
First policy of “energy dominance.”
In May, President Trump announced that the United States
will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. The president said, “In order to
fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States
will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.” Trump cited that the Paris
Climate Accord alone could cost America 2.7
million lost jobs by 2025. Similarly to the Clean Power Plan, Obama acted
unilaterally without the consent of Congress and the American people to
implement his climate agenda through the Paris Climate Accord.
Now EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who was one of the
first Attorneys General to sue the EPA over the Clean Power Plan, can start to
repeal one of Obama’s hallmark environmental programs.
EPA spokesperson Liz Bowman said in a statement to
Breitbart News, “While we can’t comment on the authenticity of the document,
what we can say is that the Obama Administration pushed the bounds of
their authority so far that the Supreme Court issued a stay – the first in
history – to prevent the so-called ‘Clean Power Plan’ from taking effect. Any
replacement rule that the Trump Administration proposes will be done carefully
and properly within the confines of the law.”
Let’s connect the dots:
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
Carol M. Browner
was an administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy czar for the Barack Obama
administration, a director at the Climate Reality Project, and is a
director at the Center for American Progress.
Note: Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality
Project, and was a donor for The Climate Project.
The Climate Project was a merged organization with the Climate
Reality Project.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality
Project, and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress,
and Jim Yong Kim was a guest at his 2013 wedding, and is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American
Progress, and Doctors Without Borders.
Peter Ogden is a
senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a director for climate change & environmental
policy, National Security staff for the Barack Obama administration.
John D. Podesta is
the founder of the Center for American Progress, and was a counselor for the Barack Obama administration.
Melody C. Barnes
was the EVP for the Center for American Progress, and a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama
administration.
Derek Douglas
was an associate director of economic policy at the Center for American
Progress, and a special assistant
for urban affairs for the Barack Obama administration.
Brian C. Deese
was a senior policy analyst for economic policy at the Center for American Progress, and an assistant to the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
Philip J. Crowley
was a director of homeland security at the Center for American Progress, and an assistant secretary of state for the
Barack Obama administration.
Cassandra Q. Butts
was an SVP for the Center for American Progress, and a deputy White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration.
William A. Burton
was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a deputy press secretary for the Barack
Obama administration.
Ronald W. Bloom
was a fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and an assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Ben Olinsky is a
VP at the Center for American Progress, and was a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama
administration.
Danielle C. Gray
is a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and was an assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Jocelyn C. Frye
is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a policy & projects director to
Michelle Obama for the Barack Obama administration.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and was a health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Michael S. Barr
is a fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and was an assistant Treasury secretary for the Barack Obama administration.
Tom Daschle
is the chairman for the Center for American Progress, was the nominee for health and human
services secretary for the Barack Obama
administration, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Austan D.
Goolsbee was a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a director, Economic Recovery Board,
council of economic adviser’s chairman for the Barack Obama administration.
Bradley J. Kiley
was a VP at the Center for American Progress, and a director of
management and administration for the Barack Obama administration.
Jeanne Lambrew
was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a deputy assistant to the president for health policy for the Barack
Obama administration.
Denis McDonough
was a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and a chief of staff; former deputy national
security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
Dan
Restrepo was a senior fellow; former Americas Project director at the Center
for American Progress, and a special
assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Gene B. Sperling
was a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and an assistant to the president for economic policy for the Barack Obama administration.
Peter Swire was a
senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Richard R. Verma
was a fellow at
the Center for American Progress,
and an assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration.
Jennifer M.
Palmieri was an SVP at the Center for American Progress, a communications director, assistant to the
president for the Barack Obama administration, and the president of the Center
for American Progress Action Fund.
Center
for American Progress calls for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control”
for guns, and is an affiliated
advocacy group with the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Center
for American Progress Action Fund is an affiliated advocacy group for the Center for American Progress.
Christie Hefner
is a director at the Center for American
Progress Action Fund, Hugh Hefner’s
daughter, and was the chair & CEO for the Playboy Enterprises.
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Leftists Celebrating Him? (PAST RESEARCH)
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Hugh
Hefner was Christie Hefner’s
father, and the founder of the Playboy
Enterprises.
Lawrence H. Summers
was a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, the National Economic Council
chairman for the Barack Obama
administration, is a founding member of the Climate Leadership Council, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a founding member of the Climate
Leadership Council, and the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders.
Marsha
Garces Williams was a U.S. advisory board member for the Doctors Without Borders, and is an
advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education.
Bill Hornbuckle
is an advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education, and the president & COO for the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
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406 Sent to Hospital (PAST RESEARCH)
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Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Doctors
Without Borders, and the Center for
American Progress.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a supporter for the Center for American Progress,
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and Jim
Yong Kim was a guest at his 2013 wedding.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American
Progress, and the Climate Reality Project.
The Climate Project was a merged organization with the Climate
Reality Project.
Albert A. Gore Jr. was a donor for The Climate Project,
and is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate
Reality Project, an administrator for the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), the energy
czar for the Barack Obama administration, and is a director at the Center
for American Progress.
Peter Ogden is a
senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a director for climate change & environmental
policy, National Security staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Joseph E.
Stiglitz was a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and a chief economist & SVP for the World Bank.
World
Bank's Carbon Finance Unit is a division of the World Bank, and contracts
to purchase emission reductions for carbon trading.
Jim Yong Kim is
the president of the World Bank, and was a guest at George Soros’s 2013
wedding.
George Soros was
married in 2013 & Jim Yong Kim was a guest, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American
Progress, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress,
and the Doctors Without Borders.
Mark Malloch-Brown
is a global board member of the Open Society Foundations, was a VP for
the World Bank, and a minister of state for the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom
is a member of the International Carbon Action Partnership.
International
Carbon Action Partnership is a coalition of governments working on carbon
markets for carbon trading.
World
Bank's Carbon Finance Unit is a division of the World Bank, and contracts
to purchase emission reductions for carbon trading.
Jim Yong Kim is
the president of the World Bank, and was a guest at George Soros’s 2013
wedding.
George Soros was
married in 2013 & Jim Yong Kim was a guest, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American
Progress, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress,
and the Doctors Without Borders.
Marsha
Garces Williams was a U.S. advisory board member for the Doctors Without Borders, and is an
advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education.
Bill Hornbuckle
is an advisory board member for the Andre
Agassi Foundation for Education, and the president & COO for the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Mass Shooting Outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay; 50+ Dead,
406 Sent to Hospital (PAST RESEARCH)
Monday, October 2, 2017
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