Kemper In-Service Date Pushed Again
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Budget & Policy
Court Date Set for EPA’s New Source Performance Standards
Oral arguments in the case against the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new-build coal-fired power plants are slated for April 17, 2017. According to an order filed Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, arguments will kick off at 9:30 a.m. The order provides no other details […]
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Budget & Policy
Coalition of States Lays out Potential Path for Carbon Capture Deployment
Wide-scale deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology with enhanced oil recovery (EOR) offers several benefits to the U.S., including emissions reductions and increased energy security, but current policy at the federal and state level is not adequate to reach that end, a report out Friday by a group of 14 states says. […]
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Budget & Policy
U.S. Mayors Pledge Local Climate Action Under Trump Presidency
U.S. cities will continue local efforts to address climate change even if national efforts come to a halt under the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump, the mayors of the U.S. cities included in the C40 said Friday. “Mayors don’t look at climate change as an ideological issue. They look at it as an economic and […]
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Budget & Policy
Bulgaria Joins Paris Agreement
Membership to the Paris Agreement now sits at 115 after last week’s ratification by Bulgaria. The deal, which establishes a legal framework under which nations are to pursue domestically determined climate actions, entered into force on Nov. 4, just days before the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework […]