"Obama's A-Team Touts Clean Power Plan's Enforceability"

"LE BOURGET, France -- President Obama's top advisers have arrived in force here today to begin a final push toward a global climate accord, telling whoever will listen that U.S. carbon emissions reductions are here to stay.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and a fleet of White House officials joined 40,000 national delegates, global warming activists and journalists gathering in this Paris suburb. In their first appearances at the summit heading into the final stage of U.N.-led negotiations, McCarthy and Moniz emphasized the major U.S. talking point around its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

As fraught as American politics is, they said, federal carbon regulations are legally enforceable, even if Congress isn't happy with the policy and a hostile Republican president is elected in 2016."

Joel Kirkland reports for EnergyWire December 7, 2015.

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