Obama’s Carbon Plan Will Survive Supreme Court Ruling: EPA

The EPA thinks Obama’s carbon emissions plan will survive the SCOTUS ruling after all.

File photo of President Barack Obama. (Photo: AP) 

President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan will survive despite the Supreme Court’s decision this week, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The ruling will will state the future of rules on cutting carbon emissions from electricity generators, the head of EPA said, on Thursday.

The ruling to freeze a major element of the plan “is not going to slow us down,” EPA chief Gina McCarthy said. The comment was made at a meeting of state energy and environmental regulators in her first public comments since the court’s ruling.