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Experts: EPA Clean Power Plan’s Legal Uncertainty May Have Lasting Impact
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan will certainly be challenged in court, but states and power companies must expend enormous resources developing and complying with state plans regardless of the outcome, witnesses testified on March 17 at a House hearing on the proposal’s legal and cost issues. The three-hour-long hearing at the House […]
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CCS Is Not Yet “Adequately Demonstrated,” Say Industry Leaders [Corrected]
Janet McCabe, a top air regulation official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defended the agency’s carbon rule for new power plants at a House hearing on Wednesday, even as industry witnesses countered that technology does not yet exist to meet the regulatory requirements. The EPA’s acting assistant administrator for air and radiation reiterated the […]
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