EPA's proposed standards for fossil fuel plants to face challenges

EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants.

The proposal for coal and new natural gas power plants would avoid up to 617 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide (CO2) through 2042, ...

EPA's new rules require coal-fired power plants to cut their emissions by nearly 90% before 2040 or cease operations.

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed carbon pollution standards for new, reconstructed, and existing fossil fuel plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized the latest chapter in the long saga of regulating greenhouse gases from ...

EPA requires existing coal-fired power plants that plan to operate beyond 2039 and large new gas-fired power plants to achieve 90% ...

EPA established 90% carbon capture as the BSER for most existing coal plants, though plants that retire before 2040 could use 40% natural gas ...

Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a host of new requirements for fossil-fueled power plants, including new source ...

On April 25, 2024, EPA announced four final rules aimed at reducing pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The rules finalized were: ...

extension of coal combustion residual (CCR) regulations to cover certain “legacy” CCR, including at inactive power plants (Legacy CCR Rule).

U.S. EPA on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 9, 2024, finalized its Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants.

Fossil fuel-fired power plants are the nation's largest stationary source of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA. President Biden ...

In April, the US Environmental Protection Agency released four regulations on pollution from fossil fuel–fired power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to finalize standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants this month. The original ...

GREENHOUSE GAS STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES RULE. EPA's final rule, New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified ...

Undeterred by the Supreme Court's 2022 rebuke in West Virginia v. EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a new power plant ...

Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued by the Environmental Protection ...

On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule (the Final Rule) in the Federal Register to regulate ...