The rule, which would require aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from conventional power plants, has already prompted 27 states and industry groups to file suit to block implementation. Challengers moved for an immediate stay of implementation on May 13, 2024. The rule is int...
The Supreme Court has ruled against federal regulators' attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. The challenge was brought by industry groups and 21 Republican-led states. When the case was argued in March, the court's conservative justices seemed ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasunveiled new greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for the nation’s power plants, moving to require both existing and new facilities to capture emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. The rule announced May 11, if implemented, would ...
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...
The Environmental Protection Agency has not evaluated how various environmental regulations targeting power plant emissions cumulatively will affect compliance options, an intervenor and three friends of the court said in a brief seeking to vacate the agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (EME Homer ...
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
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy had previously hinted that the EPA wouldsoon be proposing a "controversial" rule. However, she also said the rule would provide states with considerable flexibility in implementation. In a Monday speech, McCarthy reiterated that view in a speech unveiling the rule'...
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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 ...
EPA will announce the rule Tuesday, a senior administration official confirmed to POLITICO. The proposed regulation in essence means that new coal-fired power plants will have to capture their carbon dioxide emissions — either for storage or, in many cases, to send the CO2 to oil and gas dri...