The Clean Power Plan is the centerpiece of Obama’s Climate Action Plan. It was announced in June 2013, and complies with his more recent pledge to the U.N. that the U.S. will cut its carbon emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.

The plan is a disaster on so many levels, the most important of which is that it will kill jobs (and the U.S. labor participation rates already at disastrous low levels). The US economy will find it hard recover from these regulations. The EPA rule is looking to replace cheap energy with more expensive alternate energy, it will not only raise the cost of energy for the individual households, but will raise the cost of goods for companies marketing their products resulting in higher costs for all products, but especially staple goods. Overall the Obama created rise in the price of energy and resulting rise in the price of consumer goods, will place the heaviest burden on middle and lower economic class families. And that doesn’t take into account that the rule deals another Obama blow against the business resulting in more unemployment, government costs, and energy price inflation. The Washington Examiner is reporting that over half of the states are suing to prevent implementation of this oppressive rule:

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The Wall Street Journal warned that the Clean Power Plan was going to hurt people all over the country:

If the EPA succeeds, Americans will be paying for decades. NERA Economic Consulting estimates that the Clean Power Plan will cost $366 billion and bring double-digit electricity-rate increases to 43 states. Regulators including the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warn that the plan could weaken the reliability of the national electric grid by forcing many power plants to close well before new ones can be built. Yet even the administration admits that the EPA plan will have only a trivial impact on the climate.

Another study, this one commissioned by the National Black Chamber of Commerce and published this past June predicts the new regulation will leave minority communities with disproportionately fewer jobs, lower incomes and higher poverty than whites. In other words the income disparity that progressives like to complain about (but has grown since Obama became president) will get even wider as the Clean Power Plan is implemented.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday underscored the unprecedented number of lawsuits opposing the Clean Power Plan “as an aggressive restructuring” of the the U.S. energy system, overstepping the agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act. States, led by West Virginia, on Friday filed a lawsuit with 23 other states, which began the march of opposition to the climate rules. Those states are: Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the Arizona Corporations Commission and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. North Dakota and Oklahoma filed soon after with individual lawsuits.

The rationale behind the suits is that the Clean Power rule goes beyond the EPA’s authority, violates states’ rights and is unconstitutional, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawsuit is similar but it adds that the climate rule will drive up the cost of doing business for nearly every sector in the nation.

It seems that the progressives who claim to have the middle class and poor uppermost in their mind, would shy a way from this effort which endangers the economic heath of those Americans.