Yesterday, April 25th, the EPA unveiled their final carbon pollution standards for power plants. At a high level, the regulations will require existing coal-fired power plants that run more than 40% of the time and new natural gas-fired power plants that plan to operate beyond 2039 to cut ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken "unprecedented" steps to ensure that new regulations don't threaten steel producers' electrical security, the agency's deputy administrator told members of the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA). Power plants have up to five years to comply ...
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 ...
In February the EPA announced that it was narrowing the proposed rules to exclude existing gas power plants and that the agency would focus on them through separate rulemaking, likely to come after the presidential election. Regan said at the time that would ensure a "stronger, more durable app...
The newest final rule tightens power plant hazardous air pollutant emission standards based on EPA’s determination that “technologies and/or methods of operation are available to achieve additional [emission] control from coal-fired EGUs at reasonable costs.”1Specific...
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...
The EPA's proposed power-plant emissions rules would destabilize the energy grid and end reliable electricity.
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lawsuits will immediately target and possibly stall the EPA’s final power-plant emissions rules, and their leisurely timeline – less aggressive than the Biden Administration’s 2035 target for 100% clean power – ensures that market factors will remain the primary driver of fossil-fuel-plant ...
With its final rules on carbon pollution standards for power plants, the EPA gave with one hand and took away with the other. To address the threat of litigation from gas power producers, the agency put its requirements for existing US gas plants to reduce their emissions on hold, for now...