EPA Power Plant GHG Rule Critics Revive Talk Of Clean Energy Standard

Critics of EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas standards are ramping up arguments that the rule will not survive newly launched litigation and that Congress should consider passing a “market-based” clean energy standard (CES) to establish long-term climate policy certainty for the utility sector. While there is little prospect for action on the issue in the current Congress, the pitch nonetheless provides a new marker for debate over power plant carbon emissions as fights over EPA’s GHG limits published in the...