New White Paper Explores Effect of Supreme Court Stay on Clean Power Plan Deadlines On the evening of February 9th, 2016, a collective sigh of relief was heard in state capitals across the country. In response to requests from 27 states, the U.S. Chamber, and numerous other business and labor

As one of the lead petitioners in the landmark case against the unprecedented effort by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restructure America's electricity sector, the U.S. Chamber is well-versed in the many legal problems with the agency's so-called Clean Power Plan. We’re not the only

In a stunning rebuke to the Obama Administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put on hold its Clean Power Plan governing carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power stations until all the legal issues surrounding the rule have been

After months of avoiding the issue, the Obama Administration finally released its own progress report on the President’s Paris pledge to cut U.S. net greenhouse gas emissions 26% to 28% from the 2005 level by 2025, with a “best effort” to achieve 28%. We hate to say we told you so, but it confirms

Last week, the U.S. government announced that it will help provide $18 billion to finance a 500-mile pipeline needed to bring crude oil from the northwest to refineries in the south. Wait?? Didn’t the Obama Administration just deny TransCanada the permit needed to build Keystone XL after seven years

The Obama Administration has turned making adjustments to baseline projections into something of an art form. When you’re trying to achieve an unachievable goal while convincing people it won’t be that difficult, I guess that’s to be expected. We’ve already seen how EPA altered its “business as

Here we are near the end of COP-21, and there are still lots of issues outstanding in the most recent iteration of the text of the agreement released Thursday night. If you’ve been following these reports, you can probably guess what they are. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record, they

As we have repeatedly warned, an “air of unreality” is permeating the COP 21 climate talks. Any agreements reached later this week will have little or no impact on what actually happens in the real world. On Thursday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy joined the party with some unreal comments of her