Desperate Democrats turn to states to salvage climate agenda, but will it work?

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Watchdog.com:

President-elect Donald Trump seems intent on repealing the Clean Power Plan (CPP), one of the cornerstones of President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. But don’t expect environmentalists to give up.

 

Instead, they will be taking the fight to the state level. But recent setbacks suffered by two attorneys general who sued Exxon over the company’s supposed suppression of climate change data don’t bode well for that strategy, either.

 

Meanwhile, the debate continues to simmer in federal court.

 

The CPP is an Environmental Protection Agency rule aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. On Feb. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the EPA to stop enforcement of the plan until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit could rule on a legal case brought by the energy industry and 27 states trying to halt implementation of the rule.

 

Trump has said dispensing with the proposed regulations will be a priority of his administration.