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Federal Implementation Plans And The Path To Clean Power, Daniel Selmi
Federal Implementation Plans And The Path To Clean Power, Daniel Selmi
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Promulgated under the Clean Air Act in October 2015, the Clean Power Plan (“CPP”) requires states to significantly reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants and is the centerpiece of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) response to global warming. Many states have filed lawsuits challenging the CPP and some states have vowed that, if those suits are unsuccessful, they will refuse to implement it. In turn, EPA has proposed rules that would implement the CPP by imposing a “federal implementation plan” (“FIP”) upon those recalcitrant states under the authority of the Clean Air Act. Thus, the success of the CPP …
Environmental Law: Time To Reboot, James Gustave Speth
Environmental Law: Time To Reboot, James Gustave Speth
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Presentation given by James Gustave Speth at the 2016 David Sive Memorial Lecture.