Experts: Predictable parties working to meet Paris goals, but will it be enough?
View on S&P Global website"Anthony Paul, a center fellow at Resources for the Future, said in an interview that before the Clean Power Plan was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court in February 2015 it forced even nonsupporting states to start thinking about carbon-reduction policies. Yet for many states regulating CO2 is uncharted territory.
'It's a very different type of pollutant than what state enviro regulators are used to dealing with," Paul said. "So they learned a lot in the process of preparing for the Clean Power Plan, and that sets them up going forward to be able to do their own thing even in the absence of any federal action.'"
