What Others Say about U.S. Supreme Court Delay of Clean Power Plan







What others are saying about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay the controversial Clean Power Plan of the Environmental and Protection Agency.

Isaac Orr, a research fellow of Energy and Environment Policy at the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, said America’s future is a little brighter today.

“While replacing coal with renewable energy may invoke warm and fuzzy feelings, it would have had serious negative consequences for working families, who would wonder why the electricity bill keeps going up every month,” he added. Orr noted that the U.S. produces only 2 percent of its total energy from wind and solar combined.

“We actually generate more energy from burning wood than wind and solar. The fact of the matter is, we are going to be dependent upon fossil fuels for a long time because they are the most affordable, abundant sources of energy we have.”

Jay Lehr, Science Director at the Heartland Institute called it good news but cautioned that climate realists must not let their guard down.

“Obama will load EPA with executive orders to continue to damage our economy in any way possible to achieve his goal of placing America on a level playing field with the world’s weakest economies. The Supreme Court ruling will infuriate a man who believes he is above the Court, the Constitution and Congress.”

H. Sterling Burnett, Managing Editor of Environment and Climate News called it great news and showed the justices recognized how far-reaching the rule was.

“Though the case will go on, because it will take at least a year or longer to get through all the hearings and appeals, the fate of this rule will ultimately land not in the Supreme Court but in the hands of the next president. He or she will have to decide whether to defend the rule in court or pull it before it ultimately reaches the Supreme Court for scrapping or a rewrite.”

Marita Noon, Executive Director of Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy described it as a huge decision.

“Never before has the Supreme Court blocked EPA. The Clean Power Plan is now likely on hold forever as the decision halts it until the case is litigated by an appeals court and reaches the Supreme Court, which puts it into the next president’s purview,” said Noon. “The stay was granted based on the likelihood that the parties who sued will win the case.”

She said in the unlikely event the rule ultimately survives the courts, “it will be a different EPA that implements it.”