Defending EPA’s sweeping climate regulations before the U.S. D.C. Circuit, Obama Department of Justice attorney Eric Hostetler wholly disavows EPAs purported reason for writing the Clean Power Plan. Hostetler: “This rule is all about pollution control and nothing else.”
State of West Virginia v. EPA
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
-September 27, 2016
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FLASHBACK:
“[The Clean Power Plan] is not about pollution control. […] This is an investment strategy…”
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
-Senate EPW Committee
-July 23, 2014
“[The Clean Power Plan] is not about end of pipe controls. It’s about driving investments in renewables and efficiency. It’s about advancing our ongoing clean energy revolution […] That’s what… reinventing a global economy looks like.”
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
-Council on Foreign Relations
-March 11, 2015
