1. Why did the Clean Power Plan fail?
Samantha Privett

2. Clean Power Plan A regulation tied to the Clean Air Act
Enforces cutting carbon pollution for power plants
Implementing state carbon cutting goals
Effort to maintain a national consistency in reducing carbon pollution
Proposed for the US to lead in the global efforts on addressing climate change

3. Climate Change: The EPA has gone overboard
For
Against

4. Timeline February 2016 September 2016 June 2014 August 2015
EPA releases the Clean Power Plan (a regulation to the Clean Air Act)
August 2015
Initial compliance plans requested
October 2015
The Federal Register has the final Clean Power Plan published
February 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court halts the Clean Power Plan implementation
September 2016
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit holds an en banc hearing

5. Trump’s Executive Order March 2017

6. Discussion: Why did the Plan fail?
Is the Clean Power Plan’s main purpose to use “generation shift” to cut pollution?
Is it the EPA’s job to regulate the power plants for carbon dioxide emission? If not, who should be responsible for checking these emissions?
A cap-and-trade bill was proposed by the Obama administration in Is this just another attempt by Congress to address carbon pollution through top-down strategies?
Who actually suffers from the Clean Power Plan?