Washington partner Peter Glaser, Atlanta partner Mack McGuffey and Atlanta associate Hahnah Williams Gaines's white paper – "EPA's section 111(d) Carbon Rule: What if States Just Said No?" – was referenced in a December 3 Inside EPA article and a December 8 Carbon Control News article about states facing competing pressures over whether to submit plans to comply with the EPA's proposed stands to cut greenhouse gases from the power sector.

Per the article, conservative critics are urging states to ignore the requirement "in a bid to test the agency's uncertain federal implementation plan (FIP) authority."

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