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’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 based on the use of ...
to Power-Plant Rule EPA Looking at Changes to Power-Plant RuleEPA Looking at Changes to Power-Plant RuleThe Environmental Protection Agency's top air regulator said thatthe agency is seriously...Colman, Zack
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a new rule that will require coal-fired utilities to install a specified control technology to minimize mercury emissions. The plan was announced by the Obama Administration in early February 2009 when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a ...
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...
EPA Put Off Forwarding Power Plant Rule Last Fall With Eye on Midterms, Inhofe SaysRepublican Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.) said April 29 he has confirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency held off on forwarding to the Federal Register its proposal to limit greenhouse gases from new power ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday finalized a decision that critics say threatens regulations designed to limit pollution from power plants. The finalized rule doesn’t roll back the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). Instead, it undermines the rule by preventing t...
The rule could hasten plant closures at a time when artificial intelligence, data centers and vehicle electrification are driving up demand – a dynamic that critics say would threaten electric reliability. A federal appeals court in Washington had refused to halt the regulation while a panel of ...
111(d) Authority]]>When the Environmental Protection Agency proposes carbon dioxide emissions limits for existing power plants in June 2014, it will invoke a little-used and largely unlitigated provision of the Clean Air Act to issue the standards. Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act will ...
Legal icon calls EPA鈥檚 power plant rule an ‘unconstitutional trifecta’ This Article argues that all such denials are unconstitutional. The argument is based on a doctrinal trifecta anchored by the law of three cases: Williams v. North Carolina, which deconstructed marriage; Boddie v. Connectic...