Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:35:59 +0000
California officials are gearing up to launch a momentous new rule to tackle one of the largest sources of pollution in the state: medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks. After years of deliberation and public input, the rule is the first of its kind and long overdue
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:15:56 +0000
LEDs and CFLs are taking the brunt of the assault by the federal government on any and all government regulations. Just for fun, the EPA also wants to roll back methane capture regulations even though energy companies oppose the move.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:45:05 +0000
In 2022, new wind energy will get zero financial assistance of any kind and new solar will get very little, while fossil fuels will continue to get $4.6 billion annually in the best possible accounting, $27.4 billion in a reasonable accounting and $649 billion in a full accounting including negative externalities
Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:21:45 +0000
Power plant SO2 and NOx emissions have decreased 92% and 84%, respectively, since Congress passed major amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Meanwhile, mercury air emissions from power plants have decreased 90% since 2000, as federal limits on mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants went into effect in 2015. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:23:20 +0000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to formally replace the Obama administration’s controversial Clean Power Plan (CPP). Like the CPP, the ACE rule will regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs), and it will be founded firmly on the agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding. However, the ACE rule focuses on the nation’s […]
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