The federal government’s proposal to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants across the country could boost North Carolina’s electricity prices by as much as 22 percent, according to a study from Energy Ventures Analysis. The environmental benefits would be almost nonexistent.

That’s the assessment from Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the newly renamed N.C. Division of Environmental Quality. Van der Vaart shared concerns about the federal carbon dioxide proposal, dubbed the Clean Power Plan, during a speech Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.

The Clean Power Plan represents one of two recent “power grabs” from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, van der Vaart said. The other involves efforts to expand the types of water the federal government could regulate under so-called “Waters of the United States” rules.

In the video clip below, van der Vaart tallies costs associated with the Clean Power Plan.

Click here to watch the full 34:15 presentation.