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 ...
As the US Supreme Court prepared to rule inWest Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agencyat this time last year, climate advocates like me were staring into a dark abyss. Many worried that the high court could block any meaningful regulatory action to curb power plants’ carbon pollution....
In this rule, EPA took four actions to address emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. First, it repealed the Affordable Clean Energy ("ACE") Rule, which originated during the Trump administration. Second, it finalized greenhouse gas ("GHG") emission guidelines for existi...
The US Environmental Protection Agency's pending finalrule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at existing fossil fuelpower plants will provide more timing flexibility and not harm gridreliability, a top EPA official assured state regulators and utilityexecutives.The proposed rule has been a point of ...
Reducing power plant waste water pollution A third rule would reduce waste water pollutants from coal-fired power plants by over 660 million pounds per year, according to the EPA, with the goal of protecting freshwater and drinking water resources for communities around the co...
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 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing on Thursday a draft rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from fossil-fired power plants that is expected to be a key piece of the Biden administration’s climate policy. The proposal seeks to limit carbon dioxide...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on emissions from coal and natural gas electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet in its bat...
EPA’s forthcoming power plant greenhouse gas rules are facing potential legal issues ahead of their release, legal experts say, including whether the Supreme Court’s recent decision to review the landmark Chevron doctrine could affect the rule -- with