Corporate Climate Change, Expose Series-Intro: Leaked memos show Supreme Court ignored climate dangers in Obama regs fight P6
- Shidonna Raven
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By Alex Guillén
04/20/2026 06:48 AM EDT
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Congress gave EPA the massive task of protecting air quality across the entire country, he said. “It’s not surprising it’s going to be costly to do that,” Percival said.
Meanwhile, because the Clean Power Plan never took effect, experts said the real-world outcome provided an unusual opportunity to test the Obama administration’s projections of the rule’s benefits.
Without a regulation in place, the U.S. met the Obama rule’s emissions reduction goals in 2019 as utilities by and large did exactly what the rule would have required — to burn less coal and get more power from natural gas and clean energy.
“It’s really a rare empirical demonstration of how much bullshit there can be in the briefs and how empirically the EPA — at least the old EPA — had its finger much more nearly on the real cost of things than the industry that’s fighting the rules,” Doniger said.
A decade later, the Trump administration has taken to ignoring the climate impacts of its regulations.
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