Supreme Court Seems Ready to Limit EPA Power Plant Oversight
E&E News cites Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on the new EPA regulatory power:
Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, praised See’s description of “new and transformative” EPA regulatory power that impedes upon traditional state authority.
EPA’s goal in the Obama-era Clean Power Plan had been to “squeeze coal and natural gas out of the electric supply system,” Lewis said.
“That may be good for the planet … but you can’t make the legal judgment that this is what Congress intended for you to do,” he said.