Kansas joins lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan

“So, that’ll have some real health benefits to New Yorkers, as well”, says Enck.

“They totally changed the rule”. All of us will be judged by our willingness to partner with God in assuring the very viability of life on the Earth.

Broadly, the final rules narrow the disparities among states. It is estimated that as many as 25 states could eventually join the suit.

Gina McCarthy, the EPA’s top official, said that the final rule set “fair, consistent standards across the country”. Obama announced on Monday that power plant owners must cut carbon dioxide emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.

“… (The) agency has unusually chosen to immediately start the clock on the submission of State Plans even though it could be months before the States are permitted by statute to challenge the rule”, the petition stated.

It is quite apparent that this rule not only fails to achieve its goal of significantly reducing global carbon emissions, it also fails to demonstrate that it is meant as anything more than a slap in the face to the president’s political opposition.

One pathway to compliance is based on getting power plant emission rates down about 40 percent from what they were in 2012.

A coalition of states are suing the EPA, but it’s not what you think.

The CPP gives states the option of choosing between either an emissions standards plan or a state measures plan to reduce emissions.

“Compared to the proposal, the pendulum has swung back toward the idea that it’s equitable for every state to be in the same neighborhood”, said Frank Holleman, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia-based nonprofit. Right here in Ohio we see the impacts firsthand in our air quality, where our ozone and particle pollution are worse in many counties than they should be.

Shrinking the gap among state targets also has an important legal implication-the targets may no longer seem so arbitrary. North Dakota, under the original plan, would have had to reduce emissions by 10.6 percent over the roll out period to be in compliance.

“If we were to wait on the EPA to get this rule published, it could be well into 2016 before the states complete arguments and receive a ruling on a request to stay this rule”, he said. PG&E and the state’s other utilities will have to keep investing to produce even cleaner energy in the years to come. In April, natural gas use surpassed coal for power generation, with each accounting for about 30 percent of the total, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.

It’s expected to eventually land before the Supreme Court.

The co-ops defended coal as a practical and historically low-priced source of electricity, while declining to take a position on its environmental costs, which the EPA deems sizable.

“And it’s easy to be cynical and to say climate change is the kind of challenge that’s just too big for humanity to solve”. PG&E developed the first commercial geothermal power in the United States, in Sonoma County, and our purchases have been pivotal to the development of California’s wind industry. “But there’s not enough reductions to get anywhere near 63 million tons”. This represents jobs to Utah’s rural communities in coal mining and generation facilities. It has one of the largest private electric-vehicle charging networks in the nation and offers its own in-house zero-money-down solar rooftop systems in 12 states. The so-called Clean Power Plan is poised to dramatically increase electricity costs in Wisconsin while doing little to nothing to actually reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. More businesses will move off-shore, and Americans will deal with the price volatility of natural gas to replace the plentiful, reliable fuel source of coal. The state’s attorney general, Jack Conway, a Democrat who is running for governor, has vowed to fight it in court.