U.S.: Cutting the Clean Power Plan

It might be too little too late, but U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are trying to make good on his campaign promises to protect American coal plants or, at the very least, to roll back regulations enacted by the previous administration. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt officially proposed on Oct. 10 to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP was officially rolled out by former President Barack Obama's administration in 2015, with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Those opposed argued that the plan overstepped the EPA's power to regulate the emissions of individual plants. However, emission levels have already fallen in many areas and are likely to continue being pushed down by more forceful factors -- such as technology and economics -- anyway....