Signed under the Obama administration but still not enacted, The Clean Power Plan (CPP) called for a 32% reduction in power sector CO2 emissions by 2030 (compared with 2005 levels) but is now in the process of being repealed under the Trump administration. This decision is consistent with American norms because it leaves the future of our power system to the free market, stopping the government from picking energy winners and losers with policy. In fact, many believe that the CPP wasn't even legal, justifying the nearly 30 states attorneys general that were suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block the plan. In fact, one Harvard Law expert tabbed the CPP "unconstitutional," a violation of the 10th amendment and states' rights, here. Unmentioned, the CPP would strand massive clean energy investments already made: it unfairly disregards the $135 billion spend by the coal industry deploying clean coal technologies since 1990.

Source: Forbes October 29, 2017 23:03 UTC