But rather than ask for an equitable distribution
of the
pain that goes with substantial across - the - board
reductions in carbon emissions, what the Obama Administration did instead was to bundle GHG
reductions with
reductions in other
kinds of pollutants such as mercury and sulfur into a single plan targeted mostly at the coal industry — thus guaranteeing that their plan would be highly vulnerable to lawsuits
of the
kind that Lawrence Tribe is now leading.