Environmental Protection Agency

Emissions

The agency cited multiple examples of existing and planned power generating projects that use carbon capture and sequestration and hydrogen technologies

Power plant carbon rules were years in the making and come with cash for a CCS industry

The process to craft those rules has been underway for more than a decade and involves multiple challenges to the agency’s assumed authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal

EPA projects the proposed rule to reduce emissions of mercury and non-mercury metal pollution, as well as fine particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide.

By Robynn Andracsek, PE, Providence Engineering and Environmental Group LLC contributing editor, and Tim Girard, Affiliated Engineers, Inc. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spoken: the Good Neighbor Plan was finalized on March 15, 2023. This rule continues EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) for the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and requires initial reductions from Electric

EPA reaffirms mercury emission rules for power plants

The action reversed action that the Trump administration took in 2020, which the Biden administration says undermined the legal basis for the mercury regulations.

EPA proposes further tightening PM2.5 air quality standards

The proposed change would tighten the primary annual PM2.5 standard from a level of 12 micrograms per cubic meter to a level between 9 and 10 micrograms per cubic meter.