“Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., I’ll be a signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power Plan of the past administration, and thus begin the effort to withdraw that rule,” Pruitt said. Rather, the agency said it plans to seek public input on how best to cut emissions from natural-gas and coal-fired power plants. Even some critics of the rule said Monday that they were open to a more limited regulation aimed at addressing carbon emissions from power plants. Monday’s announcement that the EPA would seek to rescind the Clean Power Plan, with no promise of replacing it, brought promises of even more legal fights ahead. A central piece of Obama’s environmental legacy, the Clean Power Plan aims to slash the greenhouse-gas emissions that scientists agree are fueling the planet’s rapid warming.

Source: National Post October 10, 2017 13:30 UTC