The Environmental Protection Agency has made history by issuing the first ever carbon dioxide emissions standards that all future power plants built in the United States will have to meet.
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-The Environmental Protection Agency has issued the first ever carbon dioxide emissions rules that all future power plants built in the United States will have to meet.
-This is long overdue, but given the current lack of movement on climate change from the United States, this is great news for the environment.
-It will make it pretty much impossible for the coal industry to build new plants without adopting the newest carbon capture and sequestration technology.
-The most efficient power plants in operation emit at a rate of at least 1,800 pounds of CO2 per MWh, but this new regulation will require new plants to cut those emissions by more than a third.
-The mouthpieces for the dirty fossil fuel industry are saying this tech is unproven and that they’ll challenge the rules in court, but with a large coal power plant under construction in Mississippi that will use CCS, it is proven and that major project – costing hundreds of millions of dollars – wouldn’t be going forward unless the tech worked.
-These new regulations will make America more energy independent by incentivising power companies to put a higher priority on clean energy, while simultaneously protecting the environment.
-The administration is due to issue its proposal to limit emissions from existing power plants – which currently make up about a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – in June 2014.