EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) is advancing a series of recommendations aimed at bolstering the agency’s long-running efforts to assess and address “cumulative impacts,” including calling for a broader definition of the term and developing and implementing “principles” to guide such assessments.

Power sector experts are arguing that EPA’s planned rule setting greenhouse gas limits for existing gas-fired power plants should, at a minimum, adopt a series of reliability safeguards that officials included in their recently finalized GHG limits for new gas plants and existing coal plants.