Rebutting Critics, EPA Touts ‘Traditional’ Focus In Power Plant GHG Rule

EPA is arguing its just-released power plant greenhouse gas standards comply with the Supreme Court’s direction in West Virginia v. EPA to focus on “traditional” pollution controls, though critics say the rule’s reliance on carbon capture and storage (CCS) effectively makes it a re-run of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) that the high court struck down in 2022. The debate about the rule’s adherence to the court’s West Virginia decision -- which barred standards based on shifting...