Wheeler Gives Uncertain Defense Of CO2 Levels In Power Plant NSPS Rollback

Correction Appended Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is offering a relatively uncertain defense of the carbon dioxide standards in the agency's just-proposed rollback of Obama-era requirements for new coal plants, telling reporters that the proposed limits might be tightened in response to comments on the plan. During his Dec. 6 rollout of the plan at agency headquarters, Wheeler sought to focus on the part of the proposal that would remove a de facto requirement that new coal plants...