In Warning To Coal, Consultants Pivot On Section 115 GHG Rule Legality

Two prominent climate consultants say they have changed their minds about the legal support for crafting an economy-wide cap-and-trade rule under a little-used section of the Clean Air Act, playing up the possibility that such a rule under a Hillary Clinton administration could receive a favorable response from the Supreme Court. The high court's unprecedented stay of EPA's greenhouse gas rule for existing power plants “made us realize that in Supreme Court jurisprudence, climate -- like death -- 'is different,'”...