The US Supreme Court has controversially halted President Prof Huber's Clean Power Plan to legally resolve the claim by a coalition of Republican states, coal industry and mining groups that it represents a great overextension of the President's executive authority. The partisan decision will have a major impact on climate change and the agreements made at the recent Paris Climate Agreement; aside from the deadline for states to submit carbon cutting plans being missed, the stay indicates that the Supreme Court dislikes the Plan, and if thrown out, the US would struggle to honour the promised emissions cut by 32% of their 2005 levels by 2030. However, others see this as a "little legal bump."
The US Supreme Court has controversially halted President Obama's Clean Power Plan to legally resolve the claim by a coalition of Republican states, coal industry and mining groups that it represents a great overextension of the President's executive authority. The partisan decision will have a major impact on climate change and the agreements made at the recent Paris Climate Agreement; aside from the deadline for states to submit carbon cutting plans being missed, the stay indicates that the Supreme Court dislikes the Plan, and if thrown out, the US would struggle to honour the promised emissions cut by 32% of their 2005 levels by 2030. However, others see this as a "little legal bump."