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Clean Air Act Issues Congress Could Grapple With in New Session

January 9, 2019 admin 116th congress, ace, clean air act, Clean Power Plan, Coal, Congress, courts, Environmental, environmental rules, EPA, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, MATS, NAAQS, news, nsps

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:48:02 +0000

While the Republican-led U.S. House and Senate in the 115th Congress was mainly focused on reviewing, for modification or repeal, several environmental rules issued under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the new Democrat majority in the House could focus on a slew of different measures, a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) suggests. […]

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Trump EPA Scraps CCS as BSER for New Coal Units

December 17, 2018 admin CCS, climate change, Coal, coal technology, Environmental, EPA, new coal, news, nsps, supercritical

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:45:45 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has significantly relaxed requirements needed to build new coal-fired power units in the U.S. The revisions proposed on December 6 for performance standards governing carbon dioxide emissions from new, reconstructed, and modified coal power units respond to the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth, which […]

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What Coal Generators Should Know About the EPA’s Proposed ACE Rule

August 21, 2018 admin ace rule, boilers, Clean Power Plan, climate change, Coal, economizers, efficiency, Environmental, EPA, Gas, general, heat rate, Legal & Regulatory, neural networks, news, nsps, nsr, Obama, sootblowing, Trump, turbine overhauls

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule is proposed to replace the 2015 Clean Power Plan—which the Supreme Court stayed in February 2016 and never went into effect. According to the EPA, the replacement is necessary because the Obama-era Clean Power Plan “exceeded the EPA’s authority.” However, like the Clean Power Plan, […]

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