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Clean Power Plan

Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of Climate Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants

The ruling throws out the Affordable Clean Energy rule and directs the EPA to start over with its required regulation of greenhouse gases from electricity generation.

By Georgina Gustin

The Mount Storm coal fired power station sits on a man-made lake near Mount Storm, West Virginia. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
PacifiCorp's Hunter coal fired power pant releases steam as it burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on Nov. 14, 2019. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

Having Rolled Back Obama’s Centerpiece Climate Plan, Trump Defends a Vastly More Limited Approach

By Marianne Lavelle

The Kingston coal-fired power plant in Tennessee was the site of devastating coal ash spill in 2008. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Trump’s Weaker Clean Power Plan Replacement Won't Stop Coal’s Decline

By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle

Wind and coal power. Credit: Volker Hartmann/Getty Images

Trump’s Power Plant Plan Can’t Save Coal from Market Forces

By DAN GEARINO

Donald Trump holds a "Trump Digs Coal" sign at a rally. Credit: Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images

5 Ways Trump's Clean Power Rollback Strips Away Health and Climate Protections

By John H. Cushman Jr.

EPA headquarters. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

In Rebuke to Pruitt, EPA Science Board Votes to Review Climate Policy Changes

By Marianne Lavelle

Pruitt’s Anti-Climate Agenda Is Facing New Challenge From Major Scientific Review Board

Pruitt’s Anti-Climate Agenda Is Facing New Challenge From Science Advisers

By Marianne Lavelle

Emails Reveal Pruitt Was Closely Involved in Scrubbing EPA Climate Websites

By Neela Banerjee

Credit: Carmen Shields/CC-BY-2.0

Scrapping Climate Protections Would Erase $300 Billion in Benefits, Study Finds

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Donald Trump

Obama's Clean Power Plan: What to Know About the Newest Legal Showdown

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner at the White House

Inside the White House War Over the Paris Climate Treaty

By John H. Cushman Jr., Marianne Lavelle

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Trump's EPA Wins Advantage in Its Campaign to Undo Clean Power Plan

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Donald Trump wants to revive coal industry

Trump's Climate Cuts Could Result in Half-Billion Extra Tons of CO2

 

Climate Activists Plot How to Turn Anti-Trump Rage Into Anti-Trump Votes

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Should Not Be Allowed to Dodge Clean Power Plan Ruling, Groups Tell Court

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Solar energy installation in Nevada

Renewable Energy Investors: Trump Can’t Stop the Revolution

By Leslie Kaufman

Trump's Executive Order on Energy: More Fossil Fuels, Regardless of Climate Change

By Marianne Lavelle

President Trump's policies have made climate goals impossible to reach

Trump Repeal of Climate Rules Means Paris Target Now Out of Reach

By Marianne Lavelle

Why Environmentalists Worry About Trump's Supreme Court Pick

By John H. Cushman Jr.

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