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Clean Air Act, Reinterpreted, Would Focus on Flexibility and State-Level Efforts
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| Contributor | WesternDem |
| Last Edited | WesternDem Jun 25, 2013 09:37pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | JUSTIN GILLIS |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With no chance of Congressional support, President Obama is staking part of his legacy on a big risk: that he can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by stretching the intent of a law decades old and not written with climate change in mind.
His plan, unveiled Tuesday at Georgetown University in Washington, will set off legal and political battles that will last years.
But experts say that if all goes well for the president, the plan could potentially meet his stated goal of an overall emissions reduction of 17 percent by 2020, compared with the level in 2005.
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The heart of Mr. Obama’s plan, however, is lowering the country’s emissions using administrative remedies, an effort to sidestep a recalcitrant Congress. The success of that goal will depend on how far the administration is able to stretch the boundaries of the Clean Air Act, signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that it can be used to regulate greenhouse gases, which include carbon dioxide emissions, but figuring out how to do that within the technical requirements of the law will be a major challenge. |
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