EPA regulation power plant News
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EPA Official Defends Power Plant Proposal As House Republicans Question Legality
The Environmental Protection Agency's top air official told a House subcommittee June 19 that the agency has the legal authority under a little-used section of the Clean Air Act to issue a proposed rule to curb carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. “What we've done with this rule is completely within the four corners of” Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, Janet ...
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Court Upholds EPA Emission Standards
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's first emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants. In its ruling, the court rejected state and industry challenges to rules designed to clean up chromium, arsenic, acid gases, nickel, cadmium as well as mercury and other dangerous toxins. The EPA's ...
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