Friday, December 5, 2014

Laurence Tribe says proposed EPA CO2 rules should be withdrawn because EPA itself admits they're 'not about pollution control,' but are 'an investment opportunity'-July 2014

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12/5/14, "Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe Calls for Withdrawal of EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Carbon Rule," Business wire

"Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University,1 has called for withdrawal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions for existing power plants. In comments submitted to EPA this week, Professor Tribe said EPA is reaching beyond its constitutional authority and is acting outside the bounds of the law....

3....As EPA Administrator McCarthy stated to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on July 23, 2014: “The great thing about this [EPA Power Plan] proposal is that it really is an investment opportunity. This is not about pollution control.” EPA does not claim the proposed rule would affect climate."...



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