Chamber of Commerce report details state concerns with proposed EPA plan

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January 27, 2015
Public Power Daily
Jeannine Anderson
 
A report released Jan. 22 by the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy documents what the institute called “the severity and breadth” of state objections to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed last June and is expected to be finalized later this year.
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Twenty-eight states have raised basic concerns with the legal foundations of the rule, and 12 states are suing the EPA regarding its authority to promulgate carbon regulations under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, according to the report. Six states have passed legislation restricting state responses to the rule, “generally by either prohibiting compliance with EPA’s legally questionable outside-the-fence building blocks or by requiring legislative approval of state implementation plans,” the report noted.