Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Puitt is leading opposition among 17 state AGs and readying another legal challenge if the EPA plows ahead as planned. The agency is using an obscure clause in the Clean Air Act of 1970 known as Section 111(d) to transform U.S. energy policy, though these vague several hundred words have only been applied five times in history to minor problems like particles from pulp mills or municipal landfill gas. Mr. Pruitt et al. make a convincing case that the clean power plan usurps the traditional state authority to police pollution. Congress can federalize energy policy, but it must do so explicitly. The EPA certainly can’t conjure pre-emption and use Section 111(d) as a general license to supervise the Earth’s atmosphere and U.S. economy. In any case—again by the EPA’s own estimate—the plan would reduce atmospheric CO2 by less than 1% and prevent a sea level rise of less than one-thousandth of an inch. m.wsj/articles/highway-to-the-danger-ozone-1417122149?mobile=y
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:32:25 +0000
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