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The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating climate change that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. [1] The final version of the plan was unveiled by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2015. [ 2 ]
Since the Clinton administration, the EPA administrator has been accorded cabinet rank by the president. The administrator of the EPA is equivalent to the position of Minister of the Environment in other countries. There have been various proposals to make the EPA a full executive department.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. [3]
The EPA approved several state plans that allowed for variances in their emissions limitations, and the Natural Resources Defense Council challenged that approval. The Supreme Court held that the EPA's approval was valid, and that as long as the “ultimate effect of a State's choice of emission limitations is compliance with the national ...
EPA, but only setting minimal safeguards and requirements for such reductions, targeting only a reduction of between 0.7% and 1.5% of carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, compared to the 32% set by the CPP. Further, ACE kept the EPA's regulations to only steps "within the fenceline" of a power plant through emissions controls and ...
The EPA’s sitting administrator is Michael Regan, a North Carolina native who served as DEQ secretary from 2017 until early 2021. ... then the federal agency can pursue withdrawal of approval of ...
In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama called for a goal, "By 2035, 80 percent of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources." [14] In January 2017, President Obama published an article arguing that private-sector incentives will help drive decoupling of emissions and economic growth.
One of the top targets of industry groups and Trump is the EPA's clean vehicle rules, which aim to cut tailpipe emissions by 50% from 2026 levels by 2032 and encourage the shift to more electric ...