On Tuesday morning, The Buckeye Institute announced that it is suing the Obama Administration over the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which is an illegal rule to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. As Ohio’s leading voice for free-market public policy solutions, Buckeye is joining the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in asking the Court to review the CPP rule.
The Buckeye Institute’s President and CEO Robert Alt said, “As someone who boasts that he taught constitutional law, President Obama ought to know better than to engage in yet another unlawful Washington power grab. The Buckeye Institute believes the appropriate Christmas gift for this action is a lawsuit to stand up for the millions of Ohioans who would pay the price for this ill-conceived and illegal regulation.”
Buckeye’s William and Helen Diehl Energy and Transparency Fellow Joe Nichols added, “This regulation would fulfill President Obama’s promise to make electricity prices ‘necessarily skyrocket’ and would cost thousands of Ohioans their jobs. The Buckeye Institute is taking appropriate legal action to stop these disastrous effects from happening.”