As stated on another thread, the real culprit is the US Congress, who have dropped the ball insofar as thwarting the bam’s never-ending power grab.
What exactly do you mean by Congress?
A whole country brought to its knees by the race card. The GOPe is scared to death of being called racist and The Media has them convinced that White racism is at the forefront of America’s concerns.
Actually , in 2007 SCOTUS ruled that CO2 was a pollutant and told EPA to regulate it with the Clean Air Act.
Bush, then Senator Obama, and essentially everyone wanted Congress to pre-empt EPA and enact legislation to regulate CO2. In 2008 Congress debated Cap and Trade supported by the GOP versus Cap and Tax supported by the dems. The GOP won with Cap and Trade so Congress would enact in 2009.
But the House Cap and Trade bill in 2009 failed for several different reasons. This legislation was much more stringent than what Obama is implementing. It would have applied to probably 13,000 companies in the US including cement kilns, refineries, steel mills.
Then in 2010 the Senate tried to pass a scaled back version that applied only to power plants but it also failed. Obama's plan is not much different from what the Senate proposed.
Everybody is complaining about this but the 2007 SCOTUS decision applied to all sources of CO2 including mobile sources(tail pipes). Congress' attempts and Obama's regs deal only with stationary sources.
In 2009, Obama, key members of Congress, the auto industry, and the oil industry agreed to raise CAFE standards to reduce CO2 emissions from tail pipes. This is going to cost you more than reducing CO2 emissions from power plants.