Officials Signal Plans For EPA Power Plant Rules Despite High Court Review

November 1, 2021
Top Biden administration officials are signaling they plan to continue crafting strict EPA power plant rules even as the Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could curb the agency’s authority to broadly limit greenhouse gas emissions from the sector by barring it from regulating “beyond the fenceline” of a particular plant to force generation shifting. In a Nov. 1 press call , National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy suggested that officials could regulate the sector’s emissions of both conventional...


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