EPA once more suggests carbon rules for power plants
Source: https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/11/epa-again-proposes-power-plant-carbon-rules/
Author: Robert Zullo
The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Obama administration's 2015 Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce carbon emissions from power plants.
“EPA’s proposal relies on proven, readily available technologies to limit carbon pollution and seizes the momentum already underway in the power sector to move toward a cleaner future,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Alongside historic investment taking place across America in clean energy manufacturing and deployment, these proposals will help deliver tremendous benefits to the American people — cutting climate pollution and other harmful pollutants, protecting people’s health and driving American innovation.”
However, some power plant operators warn it could imperil electric reliability by accelerating power plant closures before enough cleaner resources are ready. And some environmentalists say technologies the rule cites — carbon capture and storage and co-firing natural gas plants with clean burning hydrogen — are far from proven at the scale that will be required.