Save the Clean Power Plan

Trump administration’s latest move to dismantle the landmark Clean Power Plan is a betrayal to our children, our nation, and our planet.

The EPA replaced the Clean Power Plan with a do-nothing dirty power plan instead of seizing the opportunity to update and strengthen the existing CPP—the agency could have prevented up to 5,200 premature deaths in 2030 alone, with annual climate and health benefits totaling up to $101 billion.

This week, the administration is expected to replace the climate-saving Clean Power Plan with a rule that would do nothing to protect our planet—and our children’s future.

NRDC submitted extensive public comments strongly opposing the Trump EPA’s irresponsible proposal to cancel the groundbreaking Clean Power Plan and replace it with a deeply flawed dirty power plan that will result in more power plant carbon pollution, harming public health and the planet.

The proposed rule would increase dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants, harming public health and stymieing efforts at the state and local levels to move toward clean energy and combat climate change. Worst of all, low-income families will bear the biggest burden.

The revised plan hands over authority to states, raising the risk of increasing carbon emissions and other harmful pollutants.

The proposal is designed to require power plants to do nothing to reduce their carbon pollution, and it could even result in greater climate-polluting emissions—a worse than do-nothing replacement for the Clean Power Plan.

As the world suffers another summer of record heat waves, devastating wildfires, and alarming weather extremes, EPA’s Acting Administrator Andy Wheeler is preparing to issue the Trump administration’s “do-nothing” replacement proposal for the Clean Power Plan this month.

Activists across the country rallied, hosted listening sessions, and submitted public comments to advocate for carbon pollution limits from power plants.

In short, it’s the first-ever plan to curb carbon pollution from U.S. power plants. Here’s how it works and why it matters.

No matter what Trump's EPA chief does, NRDC and our partners will defend the agency's authority to curb carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.

The Clean Power Plan would boost an already thriving Midwestern clean energy economy.

NRDC staff testified at hearings held by the states of Delaware, New York, and Maryland in early January 2018.

Trump’s EPA chief will be signing a proposed rule to roll back a major Obama-era rule on greenhouse gas emissions—and we must not let that happen.

Power companies are affirming their commitment to moving to cleaner energy resources regardless of regulatory requirements.

Fossil-fuel interests say regulating carbon will inhibit technological progress. They don’t know their history.