EPA Delay Of Existing Gas Plant GHG Standards Faces Many Questions

Even as EPA’s move to delay writing greenhouse gas standards for existing natural gas-fired plants appears to be an attempt to shore up the foundation of its rule for coal plants and newly built gas plants, a wide variety of observers are raising questions about the agency’s pledge to write follow-up pollution requirements for existing gas-fired plants. Removing this category of sources from EPA’s proposed power plant GHG rule would reduce about 20 percent of the proposed rule’s projected GHG...