Trump Return May Doom EPA Plans For Tougher Gas-Plant Air Limits

Former President Donald Trump’s election victory has thrown into jeopardy EPA’s plan for tougher greenhouse gas and conventional air emissions limits for gas-fired power plants, with a legal deadline fast approaching for proposal of tougher nitrogen oxides (NOx) limits that will likely never be finalized by the incoming administration. Under a consent decree agreement with environmentalists, EPA must issue a proposed review of its new source performance standards (NSPS) for new gas-fired power plants by an extended deadline of Nov...