Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner 6 November 2018 were to be regulated under the EPA’s Clean Air Act as harmful emissions, a regulation the EPA adopted in 2011. It was designed to combat emissions from the US power sector counting for roughly a third of US domestic greenhouse gas emissions and aimed to remove 870 million tons of CO2 equivalent (or 35% of these emissions) from the atmosphere by 2030. 51 The Plan was repealed by the Trump administration in 2017 following overwhelming political and legal intervention from fossil fuel value chain interests that had begun almost a decade prior. Case studies complied by the Union of Concerned Scientists track the involvement of a number of high profile organizations including ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Southern Company, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the US Chamber of Commerce (U.S Chamber) in attacking the scientific and political foundations for the Plan between 2007-2015.52 From 2014 onwards, the use of legal challenges was especially important in defeating the Plan. Filings related to these cases have been archived by US NGO the Environmental Defense Fund and are viewable on the its website.53 Their inspection shows overwhelming involvement of organizations in the coal, utility and industrial sectors in legal challenges against the Plan, including Carbon Major companies Murray Energy Company and Peabody Energy. Further to this ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, Peabody Energy and Southern Company are all represented on the board of directors for the US Chamber of Commerce, which led the lawsuit that resulted in the US Supreme Court blocking the Plan’s implementation in 2016.54 Other prominent legal opponents included the ACCCE, the National Mining Association (NMA) and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). InfluenceMap’s systematic data gathering process has complied multiple hundreds of evidence pieces of utility, coal, oil and industrial interests directly opposing both the Plan and the EPA’s authority to regulate GHG emission more broadly. The bulk of this is dated between 20132017 when the Plan was finally defeated. Carbon Majors either directly or indirectly (through trade groups) implicated include: Apache Corp, BHP, BP, Cenovus Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, ExxonMobil, Hess Corporation, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell and Total. 9) A Pattern of Deception on Climate 51 FACT SHEET: Clean power plan by the numbers, EPA Archives, accessed October 2018 52 Who’s Fighting the Clean Power Plan and EPA Action on Climate Change?, The Union of Concern Scientists, accessed October 2018 53 Clean Power Plan case resources, Environmental Defence Fund website, accessed October 2018 54 Board of Directors, U.S. Chamber of Commerce website, accessed October 2018 13