Richard Ayres: Carbon emission proposal causes sparks to fly

The Environmental Protection Agency won't have easy going for its proposed new pollution rules for power plants. The agency's plan to cut carbon emissions at po...

The Environmental Protection Agency won't have easy going for its proposed new pollution rules for power plants. The agency's plan to cut carbon emissions at power plants will soon face lawsuits from utility industry representatives and a group of state attorneys general. They'll contest the authority of the EPA for the way it's using an obscure section of the Clean Air Act. Environmental attorney Richard Ayers is a founding partner of the Ayers Law Group. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on this case.

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