NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules

  • Written by Hari Osofsky, Dean, Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of International Affairs, Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
imageGrid operators set the prices for energy markets and are structured to take the lowest prices – a disadvantage for coal and nuclear power.CC BY

On Oct. 10, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt formally announced a repeal of the Clean Power Plan, regulation intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal- and natural gas-fired power...

Read more: The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules

More Articles ...

  1. Under the Trump administration, US airstrikes are killing more civilians
  2. Sexual harassment: 5 essential reads
  3. Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake
  4. Until youth soccer is fixed, US men's national team is destined to fail
  5. Why Trump's executive order may compound the health insurance industry's problems
  6. How to combat racial bias: Start in childhood
  7. Trump administration's zeal to peel back regulations is leading us to another era of robber barons
  8. In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims
  9. Marketing a devastated Puerto Rico should not be the priority
  10. In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy
  11. How closing the door on the estate tax could reduce American giving
  12. Can you be hacked by the world around you?
  13. How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America
  14. How to ensure the fourth industrial revolution is 'Made in the USA'
  15. Do people like government 'nudges'? Study says: Yes
  16. How Obamacare has helped poor cancer patients
  17. Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles' contribution to World War I battlefield medicine
  18. Coastal protection on the edge: The challenge of preserving California's legacy
  19. Gentrification? Bring it
  20. In Latin America, is there a link between abortion rights and democracy?
  21. Trump's policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them
  22. What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth
  23. How the stoicism of Roman philosophers can help us deal with depression
  24. Nobody reads privacy policies – here's how to fix that
  25. Why having the sex talk early and often with your kids is good for them
  26. How the US government created and coddled the gun industry
  27. Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel
  28. Why would the Trump administration ban travel from Chad?
  29. Why Rick Perry's proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
  30. For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place
  31. Indigenous people invented the so-called 'American Dream'
  32. What makes American society so violent? 4 essential reads
  33. The 'inevitable sadness' of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
  34. How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
  35. Why the Nobel Peace Prize brings little peace
  36. Bundy trial embodies everything dividing America today
  37. Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
  38. Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
  39. Blade Runner's chillingly prescient vision of the future
  40. Knowing the signs of Lewy body dementia may help speed diagnosis
  41. Should Uncle Sam 'send in the Marines' after hurricanes?
  42. Catalonia's referendum unmasks authoritarianism in Spain
  43. The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
  44. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
  45. How 'Germany's Hugh Hefner' created an entirely different sort of sex empire
  46. Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
  47. Do tax cuts stimulate the economy more than spending?
  48. The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world
  49. I've spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn't just objectification of women
  50. How inherited fitness may affect breast cancer risk