EPA is proposing a model rule states can adopt, as well as a federal plan that the EPA will put in place if a state fails to submit an adequate plan.
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The plan contains four “building blocks”, which include improving efficiency of coal plants, increasing use of natural gas, increasing renewables and nuclear energy, and energy customers achieving greater efficiency. “It signifies a new era of growth for affordable and safe clean energy sources that don’t fuel climate disruption and sicken our communities”. State leaders should look at these options and begin talks with each other sooner rather than later.
President Obama announced plans this week for new, stricter regulations on power plant carbon dioxide emissions, and local groups are reacting to the news.
Consumers Energy, the leading electric provider to West Michigan, Tuesday said it was “favorably positioned” to meet the clean air rules in the federal government’s new Clean Power Plan.
The goal of the revised Clean Power Plan is to reduce carbon emissions from U.S. power stations by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
“We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change“. Bio-Coal can be burned in existing coal-fired power plants around the world as a renewable alternative to traditional coal.
No. The president has given each state the flexibility to decide on its energy mix on its own. By 2030, the plan will cut carbon pollution from the power sector by almost a third and additional reductions will come from pollutants that can create risky soot and smog, translating to significant health benefits for the American people. “Today marks the end of an era for dirty power plants that have spewed unsafe pollution into our air without limits for too long”, said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. Congress must step in and declare it a fundamental overreach of regulatory power. They would then have to implement the plans by 2022.
The regulations will face several lawsuits in court, but the burden of the plan really falls on who Americans will elect as their next president in 2016 since the new rules don’t actually take effect until after Obama leaves office.
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That’s why he is one of the key supporters of a rival to Inslee’s plan – an initiative for a carbon tax, putting the extra price on carbon first and letting market forces do the work of cutting pollution.
