The Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) climate change mandate goes to court yet again today, as the D.C. Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on the EPA Clean Power Plan. The Washington Examiner reports that the Clean Power Plan: … will face challenges from 28 states, the coal industry and more than 100 other groups. The power plan, which the Environmental Protection Agency made law a year ago, orders states to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third by 2030 to fight global warming. It is the centerpiece of Obama's climate change agenda and the cornerstone of his effort to meet U.S. obligations under the 2015 Paris climate deal to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels worldwide. The Washington Examiner quotes a mining industry spokesman who notes: Even EPA admits ... that the Clean Power Plan will force the retirement of 56 coal-fired power plants by 2018[.] The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a "temporary halt" to the Clean...(Read Full Post)