WASHINGTON- An announcement by the Biden Administration indicated it will not try to resurrect the Clean Power Plan, a controversial Obama-era policy. The Clean Power Plan set climate pollution targets for each state and gave officials flexibility on how they would make those reductions by the end of the decade. Instead, the administration is seeking court approval to propose a new rule aimed at limiting gas pollution from power plants. Biden pledged for the electricity sector to be carbon-neutral by 2035.

The Obama-era policy ran into legal trouble in 2016 and was eventually forgotten after President Trump's more lenient plan was signed. New data released by the EPA shows that emissions from the power sector are continuing to fall, declining by 8.3% in just one year. Transportation, the largest source of greenhouse gas pollution, is on the rise, though. The legality of the administration aggressively curbing carbon emissions from the power sector has not been resolved and will remain a challenge for this administration, “anything the Biden administration does to regulate carbon emissions from power plants will almost certainly go to the Supreme Court.”

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