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Industry Charges EPA's Modified Source GHG Rule Unlawful, Unachievable

October 29, 2014
Power and other industry groups are urging EPA to withdraw its proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at modified power plants, charging that the measure is unlawful on its face because it imposes overlapping regulatory mandates requiring plants to comply with GHG standards for both modified and existing facilities. The Clean Air Act “doesn't appear to contemplate that a modified source can remain an existing one. They are mutually exclusive [and] can't be both at the same time,”...


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