House Passes Bill to Hamper EPA’s GHG Rules for Power Plants
March 2014
This week, the House Representatives passed legislation, by a vote of 229-183, that severely limits the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue carbon emission standards for new and existing power plants. The bill requires Congress to approve any EPA rules to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants. The bill further requires that EPA establish separate standards for coal and natural gas power plants and would block enforcement of any standards on new coal power plants until at least 6 coal plants located at plants around the US have successfully complied with the new standard for 1 year.
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