If President Obama were to demand that more than two-thirds of U.S. thread and cloth manufacturing be replaced by massing together spinning wheels and hand looms, most Americans would openly mock it. Yet, he is doing just that with electricity production.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently placed Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) on hold while 27 states challenge it through the federal courts to better evaluate the plan’s potential economic and social damage. However much the plan might reduce potential dangers of climate change, it will cause much more harm to middle-class and poor Americans if it is implemented.