Clean Power Plan faces opposition in South Dakota

Indeed, the new rules are more likely to lead to job creation as industries shift to adopt cleaner technologies and develop renewable energy sources. In West Virginia and Kentucky, two big coal producers, it makes up more than 50% of the total, for example, while in Vermont and Idaho its role is negligible. If states do decide to adopt a carbon tax as their compliance mechanism, they will also need to put forward a back-up option in case their primary plan does not result in the promised emissions reductions. Obama touted it as a bold step to slow climate change, while opponents said it was federal overreach that will raise prices for electricity consumers.

EPA still will give each state a numerical target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.

Environmental groups praised the announcement.

“The rest of the world looks to us as the indispensable leader”.

Campbell County Commissioner, Micky Shober says Campbell County will definitely be feeling the effects of the new plan. Each state will have a different percentage, and Minnesota’s could be as high as 42 percent.

As reported by State Impact Pennsylvania, “EPA expects the percentage of electric generation in the US from coal to fall from 36 percent this year to 27 percent by 2030 under the plan”.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is making headlines this week, but clean-energy advocates say it isn’t the only news event related to a greener way of producing power. Coal-fired power plants cause respiratory disease and even death through the particulates they emit.

The regulations will face several lawsuits in court, but the burden of the plan really falls on who Americans will elect as their next president in 2016 since the new rules don’t actually take effect until after Obama leaves office.

Congress could address all three failings with a simple, economy-wide, market-based, long-term strategy that could credibly replace the president’s Clean Power Plan.

Terry Lansdell, Clean Air Carolina’s program director, said asking states to work together in this way will mean real change in air quality. In addition, Republican presidential hopefuls are also opposing the economics of this plan and feel that it will be disastrous and cost too much to implement. Seven years later, we are cutting carbon emissions from our cars, our trucks, our government, our businesses and institutions, and now from our power plants.