EPA Appears To Drop New Coal CCS Requirement From Draft Final NSPS

摘要

EPA appears to have dropped its controversial requirement that new coal-fired power plants install partial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) from its draft final new source performance standards (NSPS) that it recently sent to the White House for interagency review, according to one informed source. The source believes EPA decided to drop the CCS mandate in the face of growing legal concern that the technology requirement would not withstand court review, because the projects the agency had relied on to show that CCS is "adequately demonstrated" and "commercially available" are faltering.