Top Texas officials, buoyed by a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that dealt a setback to the Obama administration’s signature environmental policy, are now taking a victory lap. At the behest of Texas and a host of other states, chambers of conference and some mining unions, the Supreme Court decided to hit the pause button on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the...
Texas officials savor victory at Supreme Court over U.S. EPA
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ARB Newsclips for February 12, 2016. (California Air Resources Board)
(Source: California Air Resources Board) Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display. newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for February 12, 2016. Posted: 12 Feb 2016 15:03:50 ARB Newsclips for February 12, 2016. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board's Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. CAP AND TRADE Transit agency goes all electric, using cap-and-trade money. A Los Angeles County transportation agency yesterday pledged to convert to an all-electric fleet of buses, a move that it said made it the first in the nation to go all green. The Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA)...
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Supreme Court Blocks Obama's Clean Power Plan
The Obama administration’s efforts to create a global reduction in emissions hit a big snag on Feb. 9, when the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt on the Clean Power Plan. U.S. President Barack Obama’s most impactful environmental regulation would have required power plants across the country to cut their polluting emissions by a third by 2030. Power plants in every state would have to make their first reductions in emissions by 2022, The New York...
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Obama Downplays Fears After Supreme Court Blocks Key Climate Action
ATHERTON, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called the Supreme Court's decision to delay implementation of his administration's Clean Power Plan "unusual" and expressed confidence that the White House would prevail. "We’re very confident that we’re on...
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Despite Supreme Court, Clean Energy and Climate Progress Are Full Speed Ahead
Let's make one thing perfectly clear - while the Supreme Court's decision yesterday to put a temporary hold on the Clean Power Plan was disappointing, it won't revive the fortunes of the coal industry, slow the transition to clean energy, or cripple progress toward meeting the climate commitment the US made in Paris last year. Yesterday's decision means the Supreme Court is temporarily pausing the Clean Power Plan from going into effect, while...
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Supreme Court blocks Clean Power Plan, but perhaps not its goals
The United States Supreme Court dealt a surprising and significant blow to President Obama's climate policy on Tuesday, temporarily blocking his plans to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants. The decision, which reportedly is without precedent, could set up a costly delay and may harm the United States' role in the Paris climate treaty, experts say. But America's goals of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions still could be realized, regardless of what the court ultimately decides. Known as the Clean Power Plan, the regulations – issued last summer by the US Environmental Protection Agency – require states to make significant cuts to greenhouse gas emissions from...
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The Supreme Court Threw A Big Wrench In The Future Of Obama's Climate Legacy
WASHINGTON -- Climate change isn't getting much play in presidential politics, but the Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an astonishing reminder of the fractious politics of environmental justice -- and the stakes for who next occupies the White House. In a series of unprecedented orders, the five conservatives on the court sided with a consortium of states and industry groups to effectively apply the brakes on the future of President Barack Obama's environmental legacy. The fate of the Environmental Protection Agency's , an ambitious regulatory regime that calls for a 32 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants -- mainly coal-fired ones -- by 2030, now hangs in the...
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Congressman Lowenthal Statement On Supreme Court Stay For Clean Power Plan Implementation (Alan Lowenthal)
(Source: Alan Lowenthal) Congressman Alan Lowenthal today issued the following statement regarding the United States Supreme Court Decision to stay the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPAs) Clean Power Plan: 'I am deeply troubled by the Supreme...
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Supreme Court puts dirty-energy profits above the planet
To the editor: It is shameful, disgraceful, impractical, premature and shortsighted that the U.S. Supreme Court decided to halt President Obama's recent climate change regulation that was achieved in Paris in a groundbreaking international agreement until legal challenges have been settled, which may take a year or more. ("Supreme Court deals blow to Obama by putting his climate change rules on hold," Feb. 9) This...
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The Supreme Court throws a wrench in Obama’s climate plans
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court has turned up the heat on President Barack Obama’s landmark plan to curb climate change. In a decision legal analysts are calling extraordinary, five justices the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which requires states to cut carbon emissions from power plants by an average of 32 percent over 2005 levels by 2030. In a press call on Tuesday night, White House senior officials admitted to being “very surprised” by the decision. Officials and environmental experts said this is likely unprecedented; the Supreme Court hasn’t prevented a...
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants North Dakota's Request to Stay Clean Power Plan Rule (North Dakota ...
(Source: North Dakota Attorney General) dc1debca-db64-473b-ac1e-bd3e18072b31.pdf NEWS RELEASE February 9, 2016 Contact: Alice M. Johnson (701) 328-2210 U.S. SUPREME COURT GRANTS NORTH DAKOTA'S REQUEST TO STAY CLEAN POWER PLAN RULE BISMARCK, ND - "I am extremely pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court today granted North Dakota's request to stay the US EPA's 'Clean Power Plan' Rule, which is intended to regulate so-called 'greenhouse gas,' or carbon dioxide, emissions...
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Supreme Court sounds death knell for Obama's Clean Power Plan
Vowing to keep fighting, the Obama Administration was dealt a devastating blow when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday that his signature Clean Power Plan would be 'put on hold' as lawsuits move forward. The Clean Power Plan has become an enormous part of Obama's "climate legacy" and also a way to circumvent both chambers of a Republican-controlled congress. The ongoing challenge to the Clean Power Plan will be whether Obama acted within his constitutional powers or if he, and by extension the EPA, bypassed congress to roll out a bevy of onerous regulations. It all began when Obama failed to get a climate bill passed in the first two years of his presidency when he controlled both...
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U.S. Supreme Court Stays EPA’s Clean Power Plan (NAHB - National Association of Home Builders) ...
(Source: NAHB - National Association of Home Builders) In a highly unusual move, the U.S. Supreme Court last night halted implementation of the Clean Power Plan Rule, which requires states to reduce carbon dioxide emission from power plants located within their borders. While the rule is supposed...
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U.S. Supreme Court grants stay on implementing Clean Power Plan
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday halted implementation of the Clean Power Plan, granting a stay sought by Oklahoma and more than two dozen other states, utilities and coal companies. The court ruled 5-4 to reverse an earlier decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, denying a stay on the Obama administration's plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases from power plants. The Supreme Court halted the plan until the appeals court could issue its decision on several lawsuits against the rule. The appellate court has consolidated those cases and scheduled oral arguments for June 2. Oklahoma Attorney...
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Clean power delay stokes worries about Paris treaty
Washington – — The Obama administration asserted Wednesday that a Supreme Court order delaying enforcement of its new clean-power rules will ultimately have little impact on meeting the nation’s obligations under the recent Paris climate agreement. But environmentalists and academic experts are more nervous. They are concerned that any significant pause in implementing mandated reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants will imperil the credibility of the Unites States to lead on climate change,...
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Local Governments Stand with the Administration on Clean Power Plan, Renew Support
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National League of Cities (NLC), on behalf of local leaders across the country, reaffirmed its support for the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP) after yesterday's Supreme Court action to temporarily halt implementation of the plan. In December, NLC signed on...
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Local Governments Stand with the Administration on Clean Power Plan, Renew Support (NLC - National ...
(Source: NLC - National League of Cities) WASHINGTON-The National League of Cities (NLC), on behalf of local leaders across the country, reaffirmed its support for the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP) after yesterday's Supreme Court action to temporarily halt implementation of the plan. In December, NLC signed on as an amici curiae ('friend of the...
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US supreme court blocks Obama carbon emissions plan
The US supreme court has delivered a major blow to President Barack Obama by putting on hold federal regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, the centerpiece of his administration’s strategy to combat climate change. The court voted 5-4 on Tuesday along ideological lines to grant a request by 27 states and various companies and business groups to block the administration’s Clean Power Plan, which also mandates a shift to renewable energy away from fossil fuels. The highly unusual move by the justices means the regulations will not be in effect while a court battle continues over their legality. The White House night said it disagreed with the court...
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US Supreme Court blocks carbon plan
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a major blow to US President Barack Obama by putting on hold federal regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, the centerpiece of his administration’s strategy to combat climate change. The court voted 5-4 along ideological lines to grant a request by 27 states and various companies and business groups to block the administration’s Clean Power Plan, which also mandates a shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels. The highly...
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States Urged to Work on Carbon Plan That Supreme Court Halted
Obama administration officials are offering to help states that want to keep working on plans to pare greenhouse gas emissions from their power plants even though a Supreme Court order says that they can stop. "We will still continue to work with the states on a voluntary basis that want to move forward with us and continue to provide tools and outreach," Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy told lawmakers Thursday. "We clearly understand that the courts will be winding through the process of looking at that rule. We will respect that, but in the meantime we are going to continue to address greenhouse gases." McCarthy’s comments were delivered to the House Agriculture...
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