In my considered view, EPA is off on a constitutionally reckless mission,” Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, said in prepared remarks at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing on Tuesday.

Tribe was hired to write comments on the rule by Peabody Energy Corp., the largest coal-mining company in the world.

A law professor who taught President Obama is criticizing his landmark climate rule for power plants, calling it an overreach of power that threatens energy supplies.

Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, was hired to write comments on the rule by Peabody Energy Corp., the largest coal-mining company in the world. Massey & Gail, Tribe’s law firm, publicized the comments Friday, after they were formally filed Monday.
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His comments focused on four objections to the rule, arguing it violates a decades-long federal policy of increasing coal use; ignores the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches; effectively upsets investment without proper payment and and violates limits on the EPA’s authority.