EJ Groups Eye Battery Storage, Cumulative Impacts For Existing Gas Rule

Environmental justice (EJ) advocates are pressing EPA to premise its planned greenhouse gas standards for existing gas power plants on deployment of battery storage facilities powered by non-emitting generation, while also urging the agency to bar states from implementing emissions-reduction technologies that could increase local co-pollutants. Such an approach would essentially block the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen from EPA’s forthcoming rulemaking, given that EJ groups have long argued such measures exacerbate local pollution harms. Should...