On February 10, 2016, S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Arnold Reitze was interviewed on KUER’s RadioWest about the U.S. Supreme Court’s hold on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.
But, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has put the rules on hold, Rocky Mountain Power and state environmental regulators are left in limbo, since they’re already developing strategies for greenhouse gas emissions.
“If they don’t have their plan ready to go, they take a big chance of having the federal government take over and prepare a plan that gives a lot less discretion to Utah,” says Arnold Reitze, a University of Utah law professor, an expert on clean-air lawsand member of the state Air Quality Board.