“Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles - Phase 3” would apply to heavy-duty vocational vehicles (such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers or dump trucks, and public utility trucks, as well as transit
On May 11, 2023, the EPA announced a proposed rule to revise greenhouse gas standards and guidelines for fossil fuel-fired power plants ("the Proposed Rule"). EPA is proposing guidelines for greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired steam generating electrical ge...
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June 3, 2022 Tweet A top EPA official developing a proposed update to greenhouse gas standards for gas-fired power plants is noting that such standards must be nationally applicable, suggesting that control options like carbon capture and storage (CCS) or hydrogen blending might fail that test b...
The rule adopts the 2017 emissions standards from the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations’s top aviation authority, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new aircraft by 4 percent over 12 years. But both critics and the EPA found the standards would do litt...
On March 29, 2024, EPA announced new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles for model years 2027 through 2032. The rule,Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3, regulates heavy-duty vocational vehicles such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers, and public utility...
EPA planned greenhouse gas standards could play a major role in curbing power sector emissions even if Congress approves a proposed clean electricity performance program (CEPP), observers say, because the agency’s rules would create enforceable limits and likely accelerate a phase out of coal ...
Earlier this summer, the US Court of Appeals seemed to hand the Obama administration a victory by upholding the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations – and in effect, the agency’s authority to regulate carbon emissions. However, only a few months late...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 9, 2024, finalized its Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants – a rule that calls for aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from conventional power plants. The rule is aimed at lowering pollution...