Calpine Gets Its Wish: First Air Permit With Greenhouse Limits

摘要

In a groundbreaking decision seen as a case study of how to use the Clean Air Act to regulate global warming pollution, Calpine Corp. announced Thursday that a California air quality agency has given its approval to build the nation's first power plant with a federal limit on greenhouse gas emissions-limits expressly sought by Calpine.rnThe permit, approved Thursday by California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District, will allow Calpine to build a 600 megawatt natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Hayward, Calif.