by 2032. These new rules have come just as the industry begins to grapple with how to meet growing demand driven by data center load. Today’s Energy Market Insight will look at the current landscape of thermal plant emissions around the country and how these new regulations will affect them...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken "unprecedented" steps to ensure that new regulations don't threaten steel producers' electrical security, the agency's deputy administrator told members of the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA). Power plants have up to five years to comply ...
The rule is intended to address climate pollution from existing coal-fired power plants and ensure that new combustion turbines are constructed to minimize GHG emissions by requiring those plants to achieve emissions reductions equivalent to those possible through use of carbon capture and sequestration ...
EPA has quietly updated the modeling for its power plant greenhouse gas standards, adding compliance scenarios for existing gas plants and others that were absent from the modeling when the agency first proposed the rule earlier this year, with the changes increasing by half the carbon emissions ...
No Mandated Plant Closures The new EPA rule does not require power plants to close. Legal experts generally agree that the Clean Air Act doesn’t allow the EPA to determine closure dates. The Supreme Court, in fact, last year said the EPA only has authority to require pollution controls at...
Former President Trump said he would reverse the Environmental Protection Agency's recently-adopted power plant emissions rule.(Adam Gray/Getty Images / Getty Images) The EPA's rule would require existing coal-fired power plants that are expected to operate over the long-term and new natural gas...
Chamber of Commerce, made the following statement today regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s final power plant rule: “We are reviewing the final rule but are increasingly concerned with the administration’s contradictory approach to energy policy. With near daily reminders that electri...
Policy alert EPA finalizes four new power sector regulations The United States Environmental Protection Agency has finalized four new rules that will require significant investment by power plant owners and operators. Whether this investment takes the form of new pollution controls, carbon capture and ...
The Biden administration has proposed a rule that it says will reduce pollution stemming from new gas-fired power plants and other industrial facilities. The proposal would require these plants to cut their emissions of pollutants known as nitrogen oxide
The new plant rule is separate from the Clean Power Plan, which limits carbon emissions from existing power plants. Taken together, the regulations are designed to reduce power sector carbon emissions, a strategy at the heart of President Obama’s climate platform. ...