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Some Perspective on the Headlining Antarctic Ice Loss trends
Chip Knappenberger, Cato at Liberty, 5 December 2014
Conservatives Urge States To Fiercely Resist EPAs Climate Rule
Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill, 5 December 2014
Why Is NRDC Afraid of Democracy?
Dan Simmons, Institute for Energy Research, 3 December 2014
Fracking Debunks Obamas We Cant Drill Our Way Out
Investors Business Daily editorial, 3 December 2014
The Environmental Protection-Racket Agency
Paul Driessen, Investors Business Daily, 3 December 2014
EPA Employees Paid More Than $1 Million To Not Work
Thomas Lee & Katie Tubb, The Daily Signal, 3 December 2014
Key Facts about the Great Oil Crash of 2014
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, 3 December 2014
Representatives Press for Gas Tax Hike
Keith Lang, The Hill, 3 December 2014
End Wind Welfare! Let Me Count the Reasons
Robert Bradley, Jr., Master Resource, 2 December 2014
ALEC is the association of state lawmakers dedicated to free markets, limited government, and
federalism. RASP instructs state agencies (1) not to prepare to implement EPAs Clean Power Plan (CPP)
until the rules legality has been fully resolved in courts, and (2) not to expend funds to execute a
CPP implementation plan until committees of jurisdiction in the state legislature approve the plan.
NRDC reportedly asserted that the RASP Act would paint states into a corner. If I catch the drift, NRDC
argued that states will eventually have to comply with the CPP, so if a state refuses to submit its own
implementation plan, EPA will impose a federal plan without input from state officials. Message:
Resistance is futile -- it will only make matters worse!
That is baloney. Unlike all previous EPA rules requiring states to adopt emission performance standards
for existing stationary sources under 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, CPP performance standards cannot
be achieved by requiring owners or operators to install specific control technologies at designated
facilities a power clearly within EPAs jurisdiction.
Rather, CPP standards can be achieved only by enacting and/or amending state electricity laws and
regulations. Only state lawmakers and agencies acting pursuant to state statutes have such authority. If
states just say no, EPA is out of luck.
EPA cannot impose its own plan, because the agency has no authority to enact or amend state
renewable energy requirements, generation fleet dispatch policies, or demand-reduction incentives like
rebates for programmable thermostats.
Whats more, as attorney Peter Glaser points out, EPA cannot even threaten to punish the state with
loss of highway funding, because the Clean Air Act does not authorize sanctions for failure to comply
with 111(d).
The states are well advised to sit tight and let litigation sort out the legal issues, as the RASP Act advises.
month is free without a subscription) points out that any agreement signed in Paris by President Obama
is likely to become an issue in the 2016 elections and one that will favor Republicans.
I hope to have a better idea of the state of the negotiations when I attend the second week of COP-20 in
Lima beginning on 8th December. I plan to file occasional reports on GlobalWarming.org.