EPA Expected To Make ‘Fixes’ To NSR Proposal After Split From ACE

EPA is expected to take steps to “fix” several problems, including how emissions increases are calculated, in its proposal to ease new source review (NSR) permitting rules for coal plants, a plan originally part of the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to limit the plants’ greenhouse gases but from which it is now being split. The planned changes will seek to better link “causation” of the action to the emissions change as well as to revise alternative test methods for...