EPA Details ACE Rule's Emissions, Cost Increases, Bolstering Critics

Critics of EPA's newly proposed Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to cut power sector greenhouse gases, offered as a narrower replacement to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP), are citing the agency's own analyses showing increased emissions and costs to highlight what they say are deep flaws that will make the rule vulnerable in court. Specifically, environmentalists and other opponents of the Trump EPA measure cite agency analysis that the plan could cause as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths...