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Group: EPA’s Coordinated Regulatory Assault on Coal Power Could Push Retirements Beyond 86 GW by 2030

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:30:38 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying a regulatory sweep targeting more stringent limits on traditional pollutants that could accelerate coal power plant closures. A coal generation trade group estimates that even without new rules, an estimated 86 GW of coal generation is slated to retire by 2030. While the Supreme Court in June curtailed […]

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Group: EPA’s Coordinated Regulatory Assault on Coal Power Could Push Retirements Beyond 86 GW by 2030

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:30:38 +0000

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EPA Proposes Revisions to Two Obama-Era Rules: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Coal Ash

November 4, 2019 admin Business, ccr, closure deadlines, Coal, coal ash, coal ash impoundments, coal combustion residuals, courts, elg, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, selenium, steam electric plants, Technology, toxic, Wastewater, Water

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:45:51 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued long-awaited proposed revisions of two 2015 Obama-era rules that apply to effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) for steam electric power plants and coal combustion residuals (CCR) management by electric utilities. The agency coordinated the release of the two related revisions, which apply overwhelmingly to coal-fired steam power plants, after […]

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EPA Urges States to Submit CCR Programs Even as Coal Ash Regulatory Overhaul Continues

June 26, 2019 admin 2015 coal ash rule, Business, ccr, Coal, coal ash, coal combustion residuals, courts, elg, Environmental, EPA, Georgia, Legal & Regulatory, news, Oklahoma, state permit programs

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:48:02 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on June 24 proposed to partially approve Georgia’s permit program for the disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR). As it did so, it gave other states some advice: Follow Georgia’s lead and assume oversight of coal ash that power plants dispose within your borders. The preliminary approval marks another important […]

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[UPDATED] EPA Sets Schedules for Long List of Power Plant Regulatory Actions

May 24, 2019 admin Agenda, Business, Coal, coal ash, csapr, elg, Environmental, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, MATS, news, rules, schedules, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:40:50 +0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will act on a spate of power plant rules over the next year, its newly released agenda of regulatory and deregulatory actions shows. The May 23-released “Spring 2019 Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” lists 35 new actions, along with 57 actions that it considers “deregulatory.” The list includes new […]

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EPA Sets Schedules for Long List of Power Plant Regulatory Actions

May 23, 2019 admin Agenda, Business, Coal, coal ash, csapr, elg, Environmental, EPA, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, MATS, news, rules, schedules, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:40:50 +0000

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Indiana Utility Will Close Coal Units, Transition to Renewables

November 7, 2018 admin Coal, elg, Energy Storage, EPA, Gas, Michigan City, natural gas, news, NIPSCO, Plant Design, Renewables, Schahfer, Solar, wheatfield, Wind

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) last week told state regulators it plans to retire four coal-fired units at its Wheatfield plant by 2023, a coal-fired unit in Michigan City by 2028, and increase its generation from renewables as part of its “Your Energy, Your Future” initiative. The company’s latest Integrated Resource Plan filed on October […]

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