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EPA Projects Final ‘Good Neighbor Plan’ Will Result in 14 GW of Coal Retirements

March 16, 2023 admin 0 Comments air quality, Business, Coal, coal closures, csapr, Environmental, EPA, full coverage, Gas, good neighbor plan, Legal & Regulatory, low-nox burners, Markets, NAAQS, news, NOx, over-fire air, ozone, power plants, regulations, scr, smog, sncr

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:23:48 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 15 issued the final “Good Neighbor Plan,” its latest iteration of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) that could require coal, oil, or gas steam power plants in 22 states to reduce their nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions levels by 50% by 2027 compared to the 2021 ozone season. […]

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Is Your State Eligible For A Climate Pollution Reduction Grant?

March 11, 2023 admin air quality, EPA, greenhouse gas emissions, HEALTH, inflation reduction act of 2022., policy & politics, pollution

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:24:34 +0000

The comprehensive $370 billion climate and clean energy package inclusion with the IRA is beginning with grant applications for states, tribes, and territories

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EPA Rolls Out More Stringent Effluent Limitations Guidelines for Coal Power Plants

March 8, 2023 admin bottom ash transport, Coal, coal power, effluent, elgs, Environmental, EPA, FGD, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, Wastewater, zero-discharge

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:53:06 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing more stringent discharge standards for three types of coal power plant wastewater as part of an update to its Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs). However, the agency also proposed compliance flexibilities, and in a separate direct final rule, moved to extend a deadline to allow more coal plants to […]

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Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

March 6, 2023 admin air quality, EPA, Minnesota, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:45:56 +0000

Lately, I have been writing a lot about cumulative impacts from environmental hazards. Meanwhile, the Union of Concern Scientists just published an important report on the potential threat posed by emissions of ethylene oxide from facilities that use the cancer-causing gas to sterilize medical equipment and other products. The report includes case studies of hotspots […]

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New York Times Ad Blasts Automaker Climate Hypocrisy, Urges Action From President Biden

March 4, 2023 admin center for biological diversity, climate change, environmental protection agency (epa), EPA, Joe Biden, policy & politics, policy research, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 02:07:48 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Biological Diversity and Green Latinos placed a full-page ad in The New York Times today blasting automaker doublespeak on clean vehicles. The ad calls on President Biden to make the manufacturers cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030 and boost electric vehicle (EV) access and production. The ad castigates auto […]

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EPA Moves to Deny Coal Ash Disposal at Six Massive Coal Power Plants

January 26, 2023 admin alternative liner, Business, Coal, coal ash, coal power plants, Environmental, EPA, Legal & Regulatory, news, regulations, unlined impoundments

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:40:29 +0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed barring six coal-fired power plants in various states—a combined 11 GW—from disposing coal ash into unlined surface impoundments. The agency, however, also proposed to provide disposal extensions if the coal plants are needed to maintain grid reliability. The EPA’s proposed determinations, issued on Jan. 25, fall under its […]

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Biden–Harris Administration Releases 1st-Ever Blueprint to Decarbonize America’s Transportation Sector

January 12, 2023 admin clean transport, department of transportation (dot), Electric vehicles, environmental protection agency (epa), EPA, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:16:56 +0000

Landmark Blueprint Will Advance the President’s Clean Transportation Agenda, Slashing Consumer Costs, Improving Public Health, and Increasing the Nation’s Energy Security

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Are We Headed for a Reliability Train Wreck?

January 2, 2023 admin america's power, Business, Coal, Commentary, EPA, full coverage, Markets, nerc, news, power, reliability

Credit to Author: Michelle Bloodworth| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:19:48 +0000

So far, utilities have announced plans to retire some 93,000 MW (nameplate) of coal—almost half the existing coal fleet—by the end of this decade. Coal retirements combined with increasing penetration of

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Biden Administration Rolls Out ‘Durable’ WOTUS Definition in Final Rule

December 30, 2022 admin Army Corps, Business, Coal, coal ash, courts, ditches, Environmental, EPA, final rule, full coverage, Gas, Hydro, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, Solar, streams river, Wastewater, Water, Wind, WOTUS

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:15:35 +0000

The Biden administration has rolled out in a final what it says is a “durable” definition of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), potentially capping a legal and political battle that has raged for nearly two decades. The final rule issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army on […]

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Four Large-Scale Solar Projects Fined $1.34M for Alleged Clean Water Act Violations

November 17, 2022 admin Business, DoJ, enforcement, EPA, Legal & Regulatory, news, Solar, stormwater management

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:44:15 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have settled to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act with four separate large-scale solar farm owners in Alabama, Idaho, and Illinois. The solar farm owners—all subsidiaries of large international finance and investment companies—used a common construction contractor for their farms. The federal […]

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