OPINION: The transition to clean energy is happening, and we can and must speed it up with good policy. The EPA lost one effective tool as a result of the Court ruling, but hope is not lost.
In 2021, more than 40% of Americans lived in a county that was hit by extreme weather connected to climate change, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations. Without immediate action to reduce global carbon emissions, we face an even more dire future.
Obama’s clean power rules never took effect after fossil fuel-producing states sued the EPA and the Supreme Court delayed implementation. Before that case was resolved, then-President Donald Trump’s administration scrapped the Clean Power Plan entirely and in 2019 replaced it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule. ACE was purportedly designed to reduce emissions, but actually created incentives to burn more fossil fuels. In 2021, the U.S.
Following the ruling, there is no question that the agency’s tools to address climate emissions from power plants are significantly more restricted. But there are potential legislative solutions — and other fixes are happening on their own.
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