The Trump administration Wednesday is expected to propose replacing Obama's Clean Power plan rule to combat climate change with one boosting coal use.
Published 12:01 AM EDT Jun 19, 2019
Presented as a change to the decades-old Clean Air Act, the Trump proposal would replace the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama's signature plan to confront climate change. That plan never took effect after the Supreme Court prevented its implementation in 2015. But by the EPA's own admission, that initial proposal could lead to 1,400 premature deaths by 2030. The revised proposal is expected to contain some slight differences.
Even if it survives a court challenge, the Trump proposal is not expected to do much to help an industry that's been buffeted by economic forces, energy analysts say. Mandy Gunasekara, who worked on the proposal as a top official in the EPA until leaving the agency in February, said ACE has a better chance of improving air quality than the Clean Power Plan because it's likelier to survive a court challenge.
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