Experts Expect EPA Power Plant GHG Rules Premised On CCS Installation

Energy policy experts are expecting that EPA’s imminent greenhouse gas standards for power plants will be premised on the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, in part because officials can show the technology is “adequately demonstrated” with the help of federal support in last summer’s climate law. One energy policy expert tells Inside EPA’s Climate Extra that a GHG standard for coal plants based on the use of CCS is attractive to EPA in part because such...