EPA Sends to White House Plan to Guide States on Clean Power Plan Compliance

摘要

The White House has begun its review of a proposed federal plan meant to guide states on how to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's soon-to-be-finalized Clean Power Plan. The federal implementation plan, sent to the OMB on July 2, would also serve as a model for the EPA to implement in states that elect not to implement the Clean Power Plan. "The EPA sees this federal plan as an interim measure to ensure that congressionally mandated emission standards under authority of section 111 of the [Clean Air Act] are implemented until states assume their role as the preferred implementers of the emissions guidelines," the agency said in the Spring 2015 regulatory agenda.