# EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants Date: 2015 ## The fact 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](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources Federal Register / EPA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is decarbonization policy and [carbon-pricing coverage](/drivers/carbon-pricing-coverage): a completed EPA existing-source rule, remaining later stay named. ## What is established and what is not 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. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. 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. EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants on 2015-08-03 is not a licence to treat every later Federal Register / EPA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average EPA issues the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants into a personality. 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. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy - Carbon-Pricing Coverage: https://factrail.ai/drivers/carbon-pricing-coverage ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-idUSKCN0Q81WA20150803 - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/23/2015-22842/carbon-pollution-emission-guidelines-for-existing-stationary-sources-electric-utility-generating ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-cpp-2015