EPA Permit Responses Signal Major Shifts On BACT To Address GHGs

摘要

The Obama EPA is moving toward requiring integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generating technology and cleaner-burning fuels such as lower-emitting coal and natural gas as a best available emissions control technology (BACT) to limit greenhouse gases (GHGs) in permits for new or modified coal plants.rnIn response to several permit challenges from environmentalists, the agency has issued orders that strongly tout the agency's support for IGCC as an emissions control technology, though the agency has not yet taken the final step to mandate the technologies be considered in permit reviews.