Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new power plants.ACC supports efforts to improve our environment while growing our economy. Any policy to reduce GHG emissions must be coupled with acomprehensive energy ...
mercury, and other air toxics; (ii) wastewater at coal-fired steam energy generating units; and (iii) coal combustion residual landfills. While coal-fired power plants that have planned retirement dates are exempted from many of the new regulations, plants without such plans may ...
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 because they are only ...
As a practical matter, the rule imposes a ban on the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States, and is inconsistent with an all-of-the-above energy strategy that is essential to maintaining electricity reliability and affordability. Ultimately, EPA’...
The power sector has long-contended that basing the NSPS standard for new coal plants on CCS implementation is “unrealistic.” In a statement on Sept. 20, the American Public Power Association (APPA) said projects cited by the EPA have not yet proven the technology is commercially viable ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 2023 published a proposed rule that would establish new source performance standards (NSPS) and
In this paper, we discuss the critical issues that sources and states face in evaluating EPA's proposal and developing plans to meet the Clean Power Plan requirements.
作者: B Hansen 摘要: Washington—The Obama administration said March 30 it wants to repeal an industry-friendly emissions rule for power plants, oil refineries and other smokestack industries that the Bush administration put in place five days before leaving office last January. 年份: 2010 收藏...
After a long delay, EPA will formally publish its re-proposed climate new source performance standard (NSPS) for new power plants in the Jan. 8 Federal Register, starting a 60-day public comment period on the plan to limit greenhouse gases (GHGs) at new coal- and natural gas-fired ...
A top EPA air official is downplaying concerns that owners of new coal power plants could lose an exemption from having to meet the agency's pending greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for utilities if activists sue to block the facilities and the litigation delays the new plants' construction beyond ...