Editorial Board
Climate Fight Can’t Be Slowed, Even by the EPA
At this point, the marketplace is doing more to cut emissions than the Environmental Protection Agency is.
He likes coal, not the climate.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The best that can be said for the Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan to loosen restrictions on coal-fired power plants is that it will probably never be put into practice. States are expected to sue, rightly, because the proposal fails to comply with the Supreme Court’s 2007 demand that the EPA responsibly regulate U.S. carbon emissions.
The EPA itself acknowledges that its plan would not only increase carbon emissions but also lead to as many as 1,600 premature deaths annually.