Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
6 - The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
from Part I - The Costs of Precautionary Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- 2 The Endangerment Game
- 3 The Precautionary Principle
- 4 The EPA’s Newfound Role in Regulating Automobile Mileage
- 5 “It Will Bankrupt You” – Using Environmental Regulations to End the Mining and Use of Coal in America
- 6 The Clean Power Plan, the Rule of Law, and the EPA’s Takeover of State and Regional Electricity Systems
- 7 Renewable Power and the Reliability and Cost of Electricity
- 8 Renewable Power Subsidies and Mandates
- 9 Spinning the Tort Liability Roulette Wheel
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
All of the rules aimed at coal mines and coal-burning electric utilities discussed in the previous chapter were just a prelude to what the Endangerment Finding had made possible – EPA regulations under the CAA that were intended to end the American coal-burning power industry forever. As we have seen, Congress passed the CAA to create federal standards for dealing with local air pollution problems, and then amended it twice, attempting to deal with the newly recognized interstate air pollution problems of acid rain and ground level ozone, and also giving the federal EPA a significantly bigger role. The accumulation of CO2 in the global atmosphere is a problem completely unlike either local or interstate air pollution. Because the CAA was simply not written to deal with the problem of rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, it was not easy for the EPA to find language in that statute that arguably justified concrete steps to regulate GHG emissions.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 120 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021