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 ...
New EPA Rules For Power Plants To Bring Public Health Benefits And Spur Cleaner Energy, Says Washington Non-ProfitAmerican Clean Skies Foundation
The rule was among four separate measures targeting coal and natural gas plants that the EPA said would provide “regular certainty” to the power industry and encourage them to make investments to transition to wind and solar energy. States are already involved in lawsuits over new EPA rules re...
Nonetheless, Trump’s EPA declared that the “best system of emission reduction” allowed EPA to consider only “inside-the-fence” pollution controls. But the Trump administration’s rules did virtually nothing to curb power plants’ carbon pollution. ...
Earlier this week, the EPAproposedthe most significantupdateto the NESHAP for Coal- and Oil- Fired EGUs, commonly known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ("MATS") for power plants, since the MATS were first issued in February 2012. This proposal follows the February 2...
EPA Proposes New Rule That Would Throttle Power Plants Fired by CoalThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it isproposing the first ever rule for...Hopey, Don
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 ...
The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will eventually require them to ...
The EPA designed its proposal to project flexibility and pragmatism – and to undermine charges that it is trying to shut down the fossil-fuel energy sector. The rules mostly exempt gas-fueled ‘peaker’ plants that provide energy when other sources of power are scarce, as well as coal plant...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized four rules that impose substantial additional regulatory burdens on fossil fuel-fired power plants, particularly those that use coal. These include: revised standards for existing coal-fired electric generat...