MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont’s congressional delegation is joining a friend-of-the-court brief seeking to defend the Clean Power Plan that President Obama issued last year.
Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch, both Democrats, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who is running for president as a Democrat, joined 205 other current and former members of Congress in filing the brief in a federal appeals court in Washington.
The signers maintain the Clean Power Plan will protect public health and create jobs by setting the first-ever carbon pollution standards for power plants - the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gases.
The plan calls for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.