CPP Stay Request Compares IPCC Apples to EPA Oranges, Expert Says
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Budget & Policy
EPA Will Continue Clean Power Plan Outreach, Administrator Says
GHG Daily 1/22/2016 The Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants, the Clean Power Plan, came into effect in late December, but the agency will continue its outreach efforts to help states meet the new mandate, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told a gathering of U.S. mayors Thursday morning. “We are doubling […]
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Budget & Policy
Energy Industry Officials Unhappy with Current Regulatory Regime
Abby L. Harvey GHG Daily 1/22/2016 The nation’s energy industry is “over-regulated,” according to several industry officials who spoke this week at the United States Energy Association’s annual State of the Energy Industry Forum in Washington, D.C. Officials took aim at several regulations, though none more so than the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards […]
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Budget & Policy
Court Will Not Stay Clean Power Plan; Oral Arguments Set
Abby L. Harvey GHG Daily 1/22/2016 The U.S. Court of the Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied a request to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for existing coal-fired power plants. “Petitioners have not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review,” the court wrote in the […]
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Budget & Policy
Virginia Bill Would Add State to RGGI
GHG Daily 1/22/2016 Two Virginia state legislators, Sen. Donald McEachin, (D-Henrico) and Del. Ronald Villanueva, (R-Virginia Beach), have introduced legislation calling for the Commonwealth of Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. “Not later than June 30, 2017, the Governor shall seek to include the Commonwealth as a full participant in RGGI or other […]