April 15, 2024 Tweet EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas standards that officials are scrambling to finalize by the end of the month may expand the universe of new gas plants that would face tough limits based on carbon capture and storage (CCS), and they are also expected to scrap limits ...
Another rule updates the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired plants. One provision of the rule tightens the emissions standard for toxic metals by 67%. The other requires a 70% reduction in the mercury emissions standard specifically from lignite coal-fire...
A new “good neighbor” rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency will restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can’t control.
The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will eventually require them to capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions. The agency said that...
October 16, 2024 Tweet The Supreme Court is rejecting calls from Republican-led states and power companies to stay implementation of EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas standards as litigation over the measure proceeds in an appellate court, dealing a blow to critics of the regulation. The court...
The tools at the EPA’s disposal for the power plant rule were clipped last year by the Supreme Court, which said that the agency can only set rules that apply to each power plant individually instead of trying to shift the power system as a whole toward more climate...
First, the EPA found that nearly all coal-fired power plants can meet the tightened standards without significant investments, it said in a filing. The EPA also projected that no coal-fired plant would retire because of the rule. Additionally, the Biden administration warned that pausing the ...
The proposal also would extend a deadline for power plants to opt-in to the retirement or fuel-switch plan, “providing flexibility for some plants to cease burning coal earlier than they might otherwise do so,’' the EPA said. Officials said the EPA plans to issue a final rule in 202...
The fight over new CO2 limits for power plants is coalescing around a debate over carbon capture, with the US Environmental Protection Agency defending the technology's readiness despite industry groups' arguments to the contrary. The EPA finalized a rule on April 24 that sets a carbon emissions...
a top EPA official assured state regulators and utilityexecutives.The proposed rule has been a point of contention with manysectors of the energy industry due to compliance timelines saidto be unrealistic and concerns that limiting fossil fuel power plantoperations will cause grid reliability problems....