Trump’s EPA Starts Process for Replacing Clean Power Plan

Inside Climate News: The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will ask the public for input on how to replace the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's key regulation aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The main effect may be to leave the Obama rule in limbo. The Clean Power Plan was put on hold by the Supreme Court pending litigation that was under way before Donald Trump took office on a promise to undo it.

In an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking"—a first step in the long process of crafting regulation—the EPA said it is "soliciting information on the proper and respective roles of the state and federal governments" in setting emissions limits on greenhouse gases.

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