Clean-energy debate pitted ambition against legal worries

Four weeks before the official rollout, the news for President Obama’s signature regulation on climate change suddenly went from bad to abysmal.Already, the Senate’s top Republican was urging a nationwide boycott of the carbon-cutting proposal known as the Clean Power Plan. Fourteen states had joined in a lawsuit seeking to block the rule even before it became final. Then came a blow from the Supreme Court: a surprise June 29 decision blocking the White House’s previous attempt at curbing pollution from coal-burning power plants.Read full article >>