Articles About House Energy And Commerce Committee
- Author:
- Mark McDowell
- Posted:
- 04.16.2012
EPA Putting the Lid on Coal-Fired Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new greenhouse-gas standards for power plants, following through with the authority conferred by a 2007 Supreme Court ruling declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. The new regulation effectively bans new coal-fired power plants unless they capture and sequester carbon dioxide. Advanced natural-gas plants would meet […]