Environmental Regulations Are Still Shifting Energy Use
Despite the hold put on the Clean Power Plan, Obama has been able to reduce climate pollution through other domestic instruments. That includes expanding regulation to cover trucks and planes, using existing rules to require states to reduce unhealthy pollution that is cogenerated with carbon dioxide at coal plants, and withholding funding from states that don't comply.
The stay also didn't prevent the EPA from helping some states form carbon cap-and-trade style markets and defining a social cost of carbon that guides how government projects are evaluated.