Van Hollen: Projections on Cost of Obama’s Climate Change Plan ‘Just Dead Wrong’

What Angers Environmentalists About Obama's Global-Warming Rule (National Review)

Green groups are publicly praising President Obama's global-warming rules, but the plan doesn't go as far as many had hoped—and the groups are preparing a fight to toughen the administration's proposed carbon cuts.

The Environmental Protection Agency released draft regulations on Monday that the agency says would cut power plants' greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent from their 2005 levels by 2030.

Green groups are flummoxed over the use of the 2005 baseline, which is more in line with what power-plant operators asked for than what environmentalists demanded.