King no moreBARACK OBAMA has no more committed adversary than Scott Pruitt. The ambitious Republican attorney-general of Oklahoma has, since his election in 2010, filed legal challenges to pretty much everything Mr Obama’s administration has done: including its new immigration rules, the Affordable Care Act and laws or regulations on contraception, banking and measures to protect the Lesser Prairie Chicken. So it was inevitable that Oklahoma would lead the charge of Republican and energy-rich states against the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Mr Obama’s effort to cut pollution from fossil-fuel power stations, which was published in the federal register on October 23rd. Mr Pruitt, who calls the plan “constitutionally infirm”, promptly sued—as have 26 states in all.
Under the terms of the plan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given each state an emissions-reduction target to meet by 2030, and considerable leeway over how to achieve this. The states can, for example, measure their progress in terms of tonnes of avoided emissions, an approach which lends itself to the creation of the sort of cap-and-trade...Continue reading
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