Much of today’s news about efforts to fight climate change revolves around the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants. Make no mistake, this rule is a big deal: it is expected to provide nearly half of emissions cuts promised by the U.S. at the recent (but inadequate) Paris climate talks.
Yet the Clean Power Plan is no panacea—counter to the doomsday, “war-on-coal” scenarios painted by the rule’s opponents, by EPA’s own estimates, 60% of power generation in 2030 will still come from fossil fuels after implementation.
