Some politicians and pundits have decried President Obama's directive calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from electric-generating units (EGUs) as an end run around Congress, an executive usurpation of power, part of a "war on coal," and an unwarranted extension of the Clean Air Act, a law they assert is unsuited to GHG regulation. Rhetoric aside, a substantial legal rationale supports the president's commitment.
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