The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will eventually require them to capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions.
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued April 25 by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector,
EPA leaders told Fort Bend residents this week that the agency's regional office is pursuing multiple rules to cut down pollution from the largest coal plant in Texas, owned by Houston-based NRG Energy,
The Environmental Protection Agency just imposed what may become the first federal mandate to cut carbon dioxide from power plants — if it survives legal and political hurdles that has tripped up past administrations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Environmental and clean energy groups celebrated the announcement as long overdue,
Wyoming elected officials and at least one organization representing the energy sector had strong reactions to a strict new rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency that would force
W.Va., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, blasted new rules to curb emissions from fossil fuel-fired plants released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The political and legal fallout from the Environmental Protection Agency finalizing rules to limit power plant emissions this morning has been swift and, mostly, predictable. In terms of the legal response,
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday the final adoption of rules aimed at significantly reducing fossil fuel power plant pollution across the country. Several clean energy no
The rule was among four measures targeting coal and natural gas plants that the EPA said would provide “regulatory certainty” to the power industry and encourage them to make investments to transition “to a clean energy economy.
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The federal government on Thursday announced new environmental rules for fossil fuel-fired power plants intended to reduce pollution that is harmful to human health and contributes to global warming.
Officials say the rules will cut nearly a year's worth of emissions from the entire power sector by 2047. They could also have implications for Austin and its controversial Fayette Power Project. RELATED: Researchers directly link premature deaths to coal-fired Fayette Power Project in La Grange City leaders have supported getting out of the project for years and even approved shutting down its portion of the plant by the end of 2022.