EPA Does What Congress Failed To Do

Posted by | September 20, 2013 16:29 | Filed under: Planet Top Stories




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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will propose carbon emissions limits for new power plants Friday, a pillar of the White House climate agenda that’s facing attacks from industry groups and Republicans who call it an assault on the coal industry.

The first-time limits would require use of technologies to sharply reduce carbon pollution from future coal-fired power plants, rebuffing critics who say that’s not feasible.

It will take a few years to finalize the rules and then a few years of lawsuits but this is an important step.

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By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.