EJ Groups Target Power Plant GHG Rule, Citing Increase In Co-Pollutants

Environmental justice (EJ) advocates are charging that EPA’s closely watched proposed greenhouse gas standards for power plants could harm disadvantaged communities due to increased emissions of co-pollutants from technologies the agency identifies to set standards, an issue they say undercuts the justification for provisions that drive much of the rule’s stringency. An Aug. 8 comment letter led by the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and joined by two dozen EJ groups and allied organizations asserts that carbon capture and storage...