Week ahead: Energy bills hit the House floor The House is taking up a slew of environmental measures including a bill that would slash EPA funding and block many of President Obama’s climate rules. Lawmakers are expected to consider the Interior and environment appropriations bill, setting up a floor fight. The House Appropriations Committee on … Continue reading Week ahead: #Energy bills hit the House floor
DC Court Throws Out the First Challenge to the Clean Power Plan The Obama administration’s historic initiative to curb greenhouse gas pollution from existing power plants survived its first legal attack yesterday, but also got some harsh criticism from utility industry executives. A federal court of appeals in Washington dismissed a case brought by more … Continue reading DC Court Throws Out the First Challenge to the Clean Power Plan #CPP
Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan Washington, 1 June (Argus) — Kansas governor Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill setting parameters for how the state complies with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan. The bill, HB 2233, requires state agencies responsible for drafting a state implementation plan (SIP) to … Continue reading Kansas enacts oversight law for EPA CO2 plan
FERC Advances Reliability Safety Mechanism In Final Clean Power Plan On May 15, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) provided the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a letter signed by all five Commissioners that details its role in implementing a Reliability Safety Valve (RSV) in the proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP proposal, … Continue reading FERC Advances Reliability Safety Mechanism In Final Clean Power Plan
Report: EPA may weaken its carbon rules for new power plants The EPA’s proposed carbon rules for new power plants would effectively prohibit new coal-fired power plants in the United States for the foreseeable future. As written in the draft proposal, the rules — the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide — would … Continue reading Report: EPA may weaken its carbon rules for new power plants
Sources: EPA Ditches Mandate That Coal Plants Install Non-Existent Coal Technology The EPA may be trying to avoid a political disaster before the rollout of major regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants. Sources say the agency has dropped a key requirement that coal plants install carbon capture technology. Sources familiar with the matter … Continue reading Sources: EPA Ditches Mandate That Coal Plants Install Non-Existent Coal Technology
Colorado will comply with EPA’s plan to cut CO2 emissions, Hickenlooper says The EPA’s Clean Power Plan was rolled out in June 2014. The plan, expected to be finalized this summer, aims to cut the nation’s emissions of CO2, a greenhouse gas, by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The EPA’s proposed rules also … Continue reading #Colorado will comply with EPA ’s plan to cut CO2 emissions, Hickenlooper says
US greenhouse gas emissions spiked 2% in 2013 After two years of decline, total US greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere because of human activity increased 2% in 2013 over the previous year. That surge was fueled, in large part, because of a growing economy, falling coal prices and a cold winter, the US … Continue reading US greenhouse gas emissions spiked 2% in 2013
SOME GOVERNORS PUSH BACK OVER MCCONNELL LETTER TO DEFY EPA CONCORD, N.H. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s call for governors to defy proposed federal rules to limit pollution has been met with mostly silence, but leaders in downwind New England states and drought-stricken areas in the West are pushing back. The Kentucky Republican wrote … Continue reading SOME GOVERNORS PUSH BACK OVER MCCONNELL LETTER TO DEFY EPA
Report: EPA Carbon Regulations Won’t Impact Reliability The Analysis Group released a report on March 16 that the EPA Clean Power Plan (CPP), which will regulate CO2 emissions beginning in 2020, will not impact grid reliability in the PJM Interconnect region. (PJM oversees electricity markets in 13 states across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, as well … Continue reading Report: EPA Carbon Regulations Won’t Impact Reliability
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