After those decisions, EPA issued two very different power plant regulations in the Obama and Trump administrations based on opposing interpretations of the key Clean Air Act phrase, which directs EPA to base emission standards on the “best system of emission reduction.” ...
Yesterday, April 25th, the EPA unveiled their final carbon pollution standards for power plants. At a high level, the regulations will require existing coal-fired power plants that run more than 40% of the time and new natural gas-fired power plants that plan to operate beyond 2039 to cut ...
The agency claims these four new regulations, taken together, will represent a massive reduction in pollution and hundreds of billions of dollars in climate and public health benefits. In announcing the suite of rules, Regan made reference to the disproportionate impacts faced b...
内容提示: Impacts of EPA Power Plant Emissions Regulations onthe US Electricity SectorQian Luo 1 and Jesse Jenkins 1*1 Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University,Princeton, 08540, NJ, US.*Corresponding author(s). E-mail(s): jdj2@princeton.edu;Contributing authors: ...
plants will achieve from cutting traditional pollutants, rather than the rule's climate benefits, but the selling point is bolstering industry charges that the plan will do little to address climate change and that some of the health benefits have already been counted to justify other regulations...
and industries.” Since MATS was implemented, an estimated “13 gigawatts of coal-fired power is already slated toretireby the end of 2015.” This is in addition to coal plant owners “readying themselves to comply with upcoming ozone and greenhouse gas regulations,”accordingto the Daily ...
Under Chair Lina Khan, the FTC also has widened the door to more actively writing new regulations in what critics say is a broader interpretation of the agency’s legal authority. That initiative could run into stiff legal challenges in the wake of the high court...
“I plan to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to protect workers and families from the disastrous impacts of these latest job-killing regulations,” she added. Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions Before the draft rule was r...
Critics have expressed concern that the lower numbers remove the mercury standards’ legal underpinnings, making the power plant regulations more vulnerable to court challenges. “All that Wheeler is doing is fudging the numbers to give polluters a tool to challenge MATS in court,” Sierra ...
EPA ‘neighbor’ rule cuts downwind pollution by power plants 1 of 4 | FILE - A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule Wednesday to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industri...