WEBVTT - Bloomberg Law Brief: Effort to Save Clean Power Plan (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>Now another legal news, let's take a look at an

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<v Speaker 1>effort by Democratic states to save the Clean Power Plan

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<v Speaker 1>established by President Obama. For more in the story, Bloomberg, Lahost,

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<v Speaker 1>Jo and Grasso and Michael Bess speak with Pat Parento

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<v Speaker 1>or professor at Vermont Law School, Pat, what's at stake here.

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<v Speaker 1>What's at stake is whether or not the Obama Administration's

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<v Speaker 1>Clean Power Plan still has some life left in it.

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<v Speaker 1>The DC Circuit heard arguments attacking the Clean Power Plan

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<v Speaker 1>when the Trump administration took power, said we'll hold the

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<v Speaker 1>case in advance at the request of the Trump administration

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<v Speaker 1>to give Mr Pruett at e p A some time

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<v Speaker 1>to come up with a decision on whether it was

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<v Speaker 1>going to repeal the Obama Plan and whether it was

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<v Speaker 1>going to replace the Obama Plan. And what we've not

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<v Speaker 1>been told by Mr Pruitt is yes, he's going to repeal,

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<v Speaker 1>and he said, we're going to think about whether we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to replace it, but we're not going to give

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<v Speaker 1>you a timetable for when we're going to even make

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<v Speaker 1>a decision about that or whether we'll we will even

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<v Speaker 1>do that. So I think the d C Circuit is

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<v Speaker 1>now in the position of having to say we should

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<v Speaker 1>just go ahead and decide this case. Well, Pat, could

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<v Speaker 1>the administrations simply say keep it in abeyance because we're

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<v Speaker 1>actually about to put out a repeal now and get

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<v Speaker 1>the process done. Well. The abeyance was for them to

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<v Speaker 1>actually come forward with a new rule. That's what the

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<v Speaker 1>court said in its original order. That's why the court

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<v Speaker 1>ordered EPA to file periodic reports every sixty days of

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<v Speaker 1>making progress on that. Up until this point, e p

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<v Speaker 1>a s reports were saying we are preparing a new rule.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we're being told we don't have a new rule.

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<v Speaker 1>We have a repeal, but we don't have a new rule.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't have a timetable for a new rule, and

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<v Speaker 1>we don't even know if we ever will propose a

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<v Speaker 1>new rule. So this is a whole different ball game,

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<v Speaker 1>and it seems to me the d C Circuit is

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<v Speaker 1>going to see this for what it is, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a stalling tactic. That's Pat Parento, a professor at Vermont

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<v Speaker 1>Law School, speaking of the Bloomberg student Grosso and Michael Best.

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