EPA that EPA cannot mandate “generation shifting” under the Clean Air Act because the rule effectively forces the retirement of almost all coal-fired plants to 2032 and severely curtails the use of new gas-fired generation. She also said the rule’s emissions l...
Although the submission to OMB does not include details of the proposed rule, experts say the threshold is likely to be set at 25,000 tons because that's the stated limit in both EPA's proposed greenhouse gas reporting rule and theclimate legislationpassed by the House in June. The draft ...
EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule Provides Option For Utilities to Keep Using Coal, Official SaysEnvironmental Protection Agency regulations contribute to the closings of coal-fired power plants, but the rules also provide a pathway for new coal generation, the agency's senior air official told a House ...
EPA Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Reporting RuleOn September 22, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") issued the Final Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule (the "Final Rule"). The Final Rule, originally proposed on March 10, 2009, requires large sources of greenhouse gases...
EPA's Heavy-Duty Truck Proposed GHG Standards “Greenhouse Gas Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles - Phase 3” would apply to heavy-duty vocational vehicles (such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers or dump trucks, and public utility trucks, as well as transit, shuttle, and school buses) and...
We examine the growing divide between the two US presidential campaign’s energy policy and the debate over greenhouse gas regulations. Earlier this summer, the US Court of Appeals seemed to hand the Obama administration a victory by upholding the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (E...
In onefiling, the 25 states, led by West Virginia and Indiana, accused the EPA of implementing a rule that aimed to push coal and gas plants offline. The new requirements, they said, are "problematic, setting impossible-to-meet standards for regulated facilities, stripping away the states' ...
The case will be argued in early 2014. The administration’s climate change plans hinge on the 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA which said that EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from vehicles. ...
In announcing the proposed finding, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said it "confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations." She reiterated that the Obama administration prefers that climate change be address by Congress through broad, economy-wide limits on...
John Lory, a member of the team that reviewed the EPA rule, said “Our calculated estimates of methane emissions from anaerobic lagoons indicated that the EPA approach could substantially underestimate methane emissions from these facilities, perhaps by as much as 65%.” ...