Sentences with phrase «power plant rules»

However, advocates believe Obama will work to protect his signature power plant rules from Republican attacks, and to live up to his earlier commitments to a global deal on fight climate change.

America's coal production could plunge to levels not seen since the 1970s if the proposed power plant rule takes effect, federal energy analysts said Wednesday.

But acting EPA Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe said the agency has decided to delay that rollout and release the new power plant rules at the same time as the regulations governing existing and modified plants.

If developers continue to curb technology and operations costs, and if natural gas prices climb and federal power plant rules take effect, «that could offset some of the loss in tax incentives,» he said.

«If, by the time the case gets to the Supreme Court, there is a Trump - appointed justice sitting on it, the odds of the [current Clean Power Plant rule] surviving there do not inspire confidence,» says Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia Law School who directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

At this point, five years in, Obama should also be judged by his actions (tightened car emission standards; delayed power plant rules) rather than his words on climate change.

But his administration's domestic power plant rules and simultaneous interaction with China reflect how this dynamic can work.

There's a lot of mostly wishful talk about the potential impact of the E.P.A. power plant rules on international treaty talks this year and next.

(See related story: «Ahead of Proposed U.S. Power Plant Rules, the Spin Scramble Begins.»)

Whether it's the costliest regulation in history or the coal - killing power plant rules (that Obama's law professor says raise «constitutional questions»), it's clear that the CIA isn't the only government agency engaged in torture.

«U.S. Chamber Files Opening Brief in Case Against EPA Power Plant Rule,» Institute for 21st Century Energy, February 22, 2016.

EPA claims its latest coal - fueled power plant rules (requiring an impossible 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030) would bring $ 30 billion in «climate benefits» versus $ 7.3 billion in costs.

Via:: Albany Times Union, «Power plant rules sought, Governor makes priority of passing new law to combat impending energy shortage» Image credit:: Nuclear Energy Institute website, front page Java flash image excerpt of idealized family dancing through flower covered meadow, breathing Nuclear Clean Air.

The new power plant rules — which will be formally announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday morning — represent the most ambitious effort by Barack Obama or any other president to deal with climate change.

Yesterday afternoon's announcement concerned three different sets of proposed power plant rules: language aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions in new, existing and modified power plants.

In a letter backing the Environmental Protection Agency's power plant rules, the coalition of attorneys general said the EPA rules draw on strategies states have used to cut emissions while benefiting their economies.

While their effects will be dwarfed by the power plant rules, the plan also includes some new initiatives to further trim emissions, including granting permits to generate an extra 10 gigawatts of renewable energy on US public lands by 2020 — enough to power about 2.6 million homes.

Protecting an Obama legacy issue McCabe rejected the idea that the delay has anything to do with shielding the power plant rules from legal and congressional scrutiny.

Keohane, now a vice president with the Environmental Defense Fund, believes the announcement will paint a fuller portrait of Obama's governmentwide effort to tackle climbing temperatures, beyond the power plant rules.

The justices scuttled the agency's power plant rule to limit mercury emissions but the decision is unlikely to undermine CO2 regulations

On a related front, it'll be interesting to see if the White House tries to use the power plant rule as leverage in moving beyond the fight over the increasingly irrelevant Keystone pipeline extension.

Do we think there are significant flaws in EPA's power plant rules?

It completely fails to take into account the expanded carbon footprint of the oil industry caused by its power plant rule.

Industry is gearing up to challenge the power plant rules in court, as are many states, and the House and Senate will almost certainly pass Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval to overturn the regulations.

Industry lobbyists and campaigners said Inhofe lacked the votes to throw out the power plant rules entirely.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday dismissed the suit on the grounds that the power plant rule isn't yet final.

Hutchinson has said Arkansas would join a lawsuit filed by other states in opposition to the U.S. EPA's power plant rules.

Power plant rules haven't changed yet, but they will.

«The uncertainty caused by this rule could have a chilling effect on investments throughout the manufacturing sector, potentially costing millions of jobs and damaging all aspects of our economy,» Howard Feldman, director of regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, will testify today at the public forum in Washington on the power plant rules, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.

Jason Mark's Daily Beast article continued: «You can think of the power plant rules as Obamacare for the atmosphere: numbingly complex in an effort to ensure flexibility and fairness, based on a market system, and likely to transform a key sector of the economy for decades to come.»

The incredibly duplicitous thing about this is the way the groups spin wind energy into a climate change issue, when in reality, it's much simpler than that — and something that, unlike the EPA's power plant rule, has bipartisan support.