A federal court delayed former President Barack Obama’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) for two months Tuesday while the Trump administration determines the program’s fate.
“As this court has held this case in abeyance, the Supreme Court’s case stay now operates to postpone application of the Clean Power Plan indefinitely while the agency reconsiders and perhaps repeals the Rule,” D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Millett Tatel wrote in the ruling.
The decision could be problematic, however, because the court sustained in 2009 the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding.
The decision would make it easier for the Trump administration to repeal CPP, which was intended to limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants to slow global warming. The Supreme Court’s stay, meanwhile, allows the EPA to avoid complying with the Obama-era rule for the indefinite future.
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/08/federal-court-deals-obamas-clean-power-plan-another-body-blow/
