Full Title: Backgrounder: The Many Problems of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations: A Primer
Author(s): Nicolas D. Loris
Publisher(s): The Heritage Foundation
Publication Date: July 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
No matter one’s personal opinions on the climate effects of man-made greenhouse emissions, the Obama Administration’s proposed climate change regulations will exact a high price on Americans and have a negligible impact—if any—on global temperatures. The EPA has already put into place several greenhouse-gas regulations; however, the most far-reaching regulations are set to be finalized this summer. Known as the Clean Power Plan, these regulations have garnered bipartisan concern at all levels of government due to the threats the Clean Power Plan poses to the economy, quality of life, reliability of the national power grid, and constitutional separation of powers. Congress and the states should intervene and reject these regulations entirely before the U.S. energy system is put on a costlier and less reliable path.