Groups Begin To Outline Options For EPA To Drop CCS From NSPS Plan

摘要

As EPA considers whether to require new coal plants to install partial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), critics and supporters are offering different options for how the agency can drop the requirement without abandoning its effort to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) at new power plants. For example, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE), a group that charges that the CCS mandate is unlawful because it violates the Information Quality Act (IQA), is suggesting in an options paper that EPA issue an "interim" rule that sets a standard for new coal plants that is just shy of CCS, while conducting a peer review on the state of carbon capture technology.