Joby Warrick reports that four weeks before the official rollout, the news for President Obama signature regulation on climate change suddenly went from bad to abysmal. Already, the Senate top Republican was urging a nationwide boycott of the carbon-cutting proposal known as the Clean Power Plan. Fourteen states had joined in a lawsuit seeking to block the rule even before it became final. Then came a blow from the Supreme Court - a surprise June 29 decision blocking the White House previous attempt at curbing pollution from coal-burning power plants.
By July 7, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency was testily deflecting questions over whether the Clean Power Plan - a pillar of the White House climate-change strategy - could survive the gantlet of legal and political challenges it faced.
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