DC Circuit Allows EPA to Delay Clean Power Plan
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 On 22 February 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) brought clarity to the current and future status of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2015 Clean Power Plan (CPP) when it issued an order that will prevent the CPP from springing back to life. 1 The D.C. Circuit’s order provides EPA a clean slate to work from in developing a new plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electric generating sector. As background, in 2015, EPA under the Obama administration promulgated the CPP...
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