Wood presented the panel with an overview of the legal arguments against the Greenhouse Gas Rule and the impact new EPA emissions standards would have on power generation. She said the new rule conflicts with the U.S. Supreme Court’s directive in West Virginia v...
EPA Proposes Stricter Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks Faster Adoption of Zero-Emission Vehicles The agency explained that the development of zero-emissions technologies for heavy-duty trucks have been advancing faster than it anticipated when it wrote theGHG Phase 2rules in 2016. EP...
On April 25, 2024, EPA announced four final rules aimed at reducing pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The rules finalized were: (i)Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants; (ii)Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ("MATS"); (iii)Steam...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson's decision in December to move forward with new source performance standards for greenhouse gas emissions from utilities and petroleum refiners reflects an agency desire to continue with a sectorwide approach applied elsewhere, an EPA official said...
We examine the growing divide between the two US presidential campaign’s energy policy and the debate over greenhouse gas regulations. Earlier this summer, the US Court of Appeals seemed to hand the Obama administration a victory by upholding the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (E...
The Situation:The Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") requires the U.S Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") to finalize new greenhouse gas reporting rules for the petroleum and natural gas industry based on "empirical emission data." Reported emissions will be subject to a methane fee...
The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades and provide $13 billion in net benefits in the form of fewer hospital visits, lost work days and deaths, the EPA said. Th...
“EPA is not projecting emission reductions associated with today’s proposed GHG regulations,” the agency wrote in the rule. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and pollution from air travel is currently responsible for 9 percent of transportation emissions...
The draft "Prevention of Significant Deterioration/Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule" is seen as a critical regulation that would work in conjunction with several other climate-change rules expected from EPA. EPA and theTransportation Departmentlast week sent draft rules to the White House for ...
EPA is announcing plans to scale back the scope of its pending power plant greenhouse gas standards by removing proposed controls on existing natural gas plants, though the agency is coupling the move with a pledge to tackle those facilities’ emissions as part of a broader multi-pollutant strate...