Utilities Urge EPA To Ensure FIP Provides Flexibility Equivalent To ESPS

Power industry groups are urging EPA to ensure that the agency's federal plan for implementing its existing power plant greenhouse gas rule in recalcitrant states provides as much flexibility as the underlying rule provides to states that submit their own implementation plans. In testimony given at EPA's recent public hearings in Pittsburgh, Denver, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., industry groups urged the agency to ensure any final federal implementation plan (FIP) includes a reliability safety valve (RSV) and provide the option...