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EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants

On 3 August 2015 President Obama announced, and EPA issued, the Clean Power Plan setting state carbon guidelines for existing fossil power plants. The rule published in the Federal Register on 23 October 2015. In the causal graph this event strengthens Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy, a driver that weakens Global CO2 emissions per capita — an improving welfare path.

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On 3 August 2015 President Obama announced, and EPA issued, the Clean Power Plan setting state carbon guidelines for existing fossil power plants. The rule published in the Federal Register on 23 October 2015.

Context

Massachusetts v. EPA and the 2014 proposal sat as parents. Neighbouring Paris 2016 is a later depositary child. He did not sit as every PUC. McCarthy’s EPA wrote.

Paris 3 September 2016 is a child diplomatic file. CPP stay 9 February 2016 is the child court file.

A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. Donald Trump is president from 20 January 2025. Joe Biden was president 2021–2025.

Why it matters

The path is decarbonization policy and carbon-pricing coverage: a completed EPA existing-source rule, remaining later stay named.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Barack Obama

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.7 · verified

    EPA promulgated. He owned the climate weather. States were to write plans. Courts later stayed.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Obama to unveil historic climate change planReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Federal Register — Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for existing electric generating unitsFederal Register / EPA · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Federal Register / EPA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 3 August 2015 announcement and 23 October 2015 Federal Register text, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later U.S. gigatonne coefficient from that Monday, or that every coal plant uniquely closed that week.

He owned the climate weather. States were to write plans. Courts later stayed.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants, not a later speech about EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to EPA promulgated. He owned the climate weather. States were to write plans. Courts later stayed. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorBarack Obama
  2. contributed toFactEPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy
  4. weakensIndicatorGlobal CO2 emissions per capita

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Factrail. (2026). EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-cpp-2015

https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-cpp-2015

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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