Past EPA Power Plant Rule Changes May Set Precedent For Trimming ESPS

If recent EPA rules for power plants are any precedent, the agency's proposed rule governing plants' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is likely to be significantly scaled back when issued in final form later in 2015. While environmentalists generally disagree with that assumption, industry and others sources point to major revisions between the proposed and final versions of EPA's mercury and air toxics standards (MATS) and its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), both finalized in 2011, as two important precedents for...