On July 12th Coral Davenport reported for Politico:
Congress may or may not pass a serious climate bill this year, but one thing is certain: It won’t be business as usual.

Congress may or may not pass a serious climate bill this year, but one thing is certain: It won’t be business as usual.

While Republicans and polluting industries will celebrate, most know their victory will be fleeting…
Over the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled out four rules that, in the absence of climate change legislation, eventually would give the executive branch command-and-control power to limit carbon pollution from power plants, factories and tailpipes. Those rules will start to take effect next year, and they will be met with a tsunami of legal pushback from states and polluting industries.

This reporting might be true depending on how Davenport wants to define “polluting industries.” Because many energy companies that emit carbon (including BP, Duke Energy, and ConocoPhillips) were all members of the pro-climate bill U.S. Climate Action Partnership. These corporations are not celebrating their lost opportunity to lock out new competitors and win new federal subsidies as part of a “serious climate bill.”

Meanwhile the National Federation of Independent Businesses will be one of “industries” joining states fighting back against the EPA’s “command-and-control” regulations. Small businesses do use energy, so in that sense they are a “polluting industry” but then by that definition all companies, including Politico, would qualify as a polluting industry.

Will Politico be joining suit against the EPA?