Once again, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sparking controversy with proposed regulations that have critics saying that the agency has deliberately overreached its legal authority under the Clean Air Act.

The EPA introduced the proposed Clean Power Plan Rule in June 2014. The federal agency plan focuses on cutting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants from 2005 levels by 30 percent by 2030.

On Feb. 4, the Law & Economics Center (LEC) at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va., will assemble a group of legal heavyweights to explore the potential impacts of this hotly proposed rule. The panel discussion is titled “EPA's Proposed Regulations Under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act: Clean Power or Power Play?” The event will give panelists an opportunity to discuss critics' charges that the EPA has intentionally expanded its powers far beyond anything Congress intended or whether it is acting appropriately within the boundaries of the Clean Air Act to substantially reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants in order to protect human health.