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 ...
These new rules have come just as the industry begins to grapple with how to meet growing demand driven by data center load. Today’s Energy Market Insight will look at the current landscape of thermal plant emissions around the country and how these new regulations will affect them. In 2023...
EPA Administrator Michael Regan takes questions from ABC News after a press conference for the agency's new power plant pollution rules at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2024.Kelly Livingston/ABC News At Thursday's formal announcement for the new rules ...
E-mail(s): jdj2@princeton.edu;Contributing authors: ql7299@princeton.edu;AbstractTaking aim at one of the largest greenhouse gas emitting sectors, the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) f i nalized new regulations on power plant greenhouse gas emis-sions in May 2024. These rules take ...
After the power plant regulations were proposed last year, some lawmakers predicted they could force plants to close by making them too costly to operate, affecting the reliability of the electric grid. If Republicans subject the rules to a Congressional Review Act joint resolution, however, such ...
The cross-state pollution rule, combined with rules on wastewater pollution, mercury and air toxics, and rules expected on greenhouse gas emissions,“make it impossible for utilities to make decisions based on the merits of what keeps the lights on, forcing those utilities to make decisions...
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...
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The challengers have made separate requests for the Supreme Court to temporarily halt all three of the new rules, including the Biden administration's restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. The EPA rule This case involves the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or ...
Draft SAB letter to Regan urges tougher power-plant GHG rules . “The SAB recommends that the EPA: consider substantial increases in the stringency of the proposed rule to align the outcomes with the administration’s goals and develop the ability to rapidly and realistically assess a wide ...