Fun fact about the CPP and Obama. It’s currently tied up in the courts, and we’ll be waiting to see if the EPA on steroids will get slapped down by the SCOTUS. Obama talked about how law professor, Laurence Tribe was a mentor for him at Harvard. This must have been a little painful.
Perhaps the harshest and most influential critique came from Harvard University Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe. Tribe, a “liberal legal icon” who served in the Justice Department for President Obama’s first term, stated in testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that the “EPA is attempting an unconstitutional trifecta: usurping the prerogatives of the States, Congress and the Federal Courts—all at once. Burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy.”
This goes into some of the legal part, and how the CPP takes power away from the states, and gives it to the EPA.