Researchers Question Key ACE Justifications, Finding More Health Harms

July 18, 2019
Academic and other researchers are questioning major assumptions in EPA’s final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to limit power sector greenhouse gas emissions, finding that the rule is likely to have greater adverse air quality and health effects than EPA projected, largely due to emission “rebound” effects that the agency downplays. A July 18 paper , from several major universities and an environmental think tank studies whether EPA’s analyses underlying the rule incorporate the best available information and whether the...


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