{"id":134923,"date":"2017-10-04T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134923"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:16:21","slug":"trumps-epa-kinda-sorta-starts-rolling-back-clean-power-plan-maybe-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/trumps-epa-kinda-sorta-starts-rolling-back-clean-power-plan-maybe-kinda.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s EPA kinda-sorta starts rolling back the Clean Power Plan, maybe-kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Trump thunderously Executive Ordered the Clean Power Plan to be rescinded, it turns out that, no, you can&#8217;t just do that. The EPA has now formally announced it&#8217;s going to start undoing the Clean Power Plan &#8212; which never went into effect, due to law suits from folk like &#8230; well, like Scott Pruitt, now the head of the EPA. But to undoing it, they have to go through a whole <i>new<\/i> set of rulesmaking, which will take years (not counting court activities), and still have to take into account the EPA&#8217;s own ruling that, well, yeah, releasing greenhouse gasses is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; not much will actively change for quite some time, but on the bright side not much will actively change for quite some time. Except, of course, the climate.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/04\/climate\/trump-climate-change.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/10\/trump-administration-to-announce-repeal-of-the-clean-power-plan\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/7ka5JINeN942LxGG879Cftm92NHLpM8tW_joXMzUliv6lvRHZVS8Bz7GdFAgmyq1F81USrP87Y5vNbl7J45wF0hA6iwBti8Ivmkgg1A6nZ0jZwY_AYmRKHdajz11NUTCaQ=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/10\/trump-administration-to-announce-repeal-of-the-clean-power-plan\/\">Trump administration to announce repeal of the Clean Power Plan<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFaced with a judge&#8217;s deadline, the EPA will try something new, can&#8217;t say what yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/LU15efQDo8Z\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Trump thunderously Executive Ordered the Clean Power Plan to be rescinded, it turns out that, no, you can&#8217;t just do that. The EPA has now formally announced it&#8217;s going to start undoing the Clean Power Plan &#8212; which never went into effect, due to law suits from folk like &#8230; well, like Scott Pruitt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/trumps-epa-kinda-sorta-starts-rolling-back-clean-power-plan-maybe-kinda.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump&#8217;s EPA kinda-sorta starts rolling back the Clean Power Plan, maybe-kinda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,748,131,374],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-134923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-energy","category-money-politics","tag-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/power-plant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135357,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/science-don-need-no-steekin-science.html","url_meta":{"origin":134923,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Science? 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