Bipartisan House Duo Floats Power Sector CES With EPA Preemption

Reps. David McKinley (R-WV) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) are floating draft details of a plan to cut utilities’ greenhouse gas emissions that combines an immediate focus on technology programs with a longer-term “clean electricity standard” (CES), coupled with at least temporary preemption of existing EPA utility GHG rules. The plan floated this week is garnering initial praise as an unusual collaboration between Democrats and Republicans, even as it includes provisions -- such as the bar on agency regulations -- that...