EPA Chief: Trump Plans To Kill Obama-era Clean Power Plan

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Date

March 27, 2017

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Media Highlight

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NPR's Morning Edition

"NATHAN RICHARDSON: That's like saying it's possible for a battleship to turn around. It's not something - yeah, it's totally possible. It's not something that can happen right away. Once you have something like the Clean Power Plan, a final rulemaking, then that can't be withdrawn using any other process than actually the same one that was used to create it."

Topics

Clean Energy Regulations

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Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.

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