Thanks to fracking and directional drilling and the free market, the US (unlike all other industrial countries) met it's Clean Power Plan goals years early without implementing the Clean Power Plan. That greens aren't delighted by this shows they don't really care about carbon emissions.
CO2 Reduction without the Clean Power Plan
Jeffrey J. Anderson *†, David Rode‡, Haibo Zhai†, and Paul Fischbeck†‡
† Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15213, United States
‡ Department of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15213, United States
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2018, 52 (5), pp 2432–2433
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00407
Publication Date (Web): February 15, 2018
Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society
.............. So successful have market forces been under the existing regulatory framework to date that estimated 2017 CO2 emission levels are already at the CPP’s 2025 target .............
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