Health advocates support clean power plan

“There is tremendous potential for energy savings performance contracting and distributed generation to support the Clean Power Plan, and we will continue to advocate for states to maximize those opportunities”, said Sakellaris.

President Barack Obama’s new regulation to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is the first-ever federal limits on power-plants that aim to ease climate change.

Shelley Moore Capito (R) isn’t thrilled about the new plan, and feels as though the president and the EPA are overstepping their boundaries by asserting their dominance over states’ and individuals’ rights.

EPA assessments have indicated that power plants in the US account for around one-third of all carbon pollution emissions.

Mr. Ban will travel to Washington, D.C. tomorrow to meet with Mr. Obama on a range of issues. This might be hard to defend since last year the Supreme Court ruled that, under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon emissions.

Obama’s Clean Power Plan focuses on cutting the U.S.’s power plant carbon emissions and battling climate change. The president hence has the legal authority to make a decision on pollutants from power plants that are endangering public health across the country.

The new Clean Power Plan still requires Arizona to cut carbon dioxide emissions, but by a lesser amount than the proposed plan did. “They can keep coal running”, said Administrator Gina McCarthy, administrator of the EPA. They argue that the administration is imposing strict emission regulations that will raise the cost of energy for consumers for the sake of an global agreement that other countries may or may not live up to. But at the time, Beshear stressed that Conway wasn’t acting for him in that lawsuit, and the Energy and Environment Cabinet began work on a state compliance plan.

State plans will accelerate a move away from coal-fired electricity, the dirtiest kind, and toward cleaner natural gas and renewables, along with more energy efficiency.

“In our current review of the rule, it’s clear that this ill-conceived one-size-fits-all plan will do significant harm to Kentucky families, our manufacturing companies and the overall economy”.