Tag Archives: greenhouse gas regulation

EPA Initiates Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rollback – A New Battle Begins

The summer of 2025 has seen the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implement a significant shift in U.S. federal climate policy envisioned by the Trump Administration. First, on June 17, 2025, EPA proposed a rule, entitled Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units, which would repeal Obama and Biden era … Continue Reading

US EPA (Finally) Publishes Re-proposed GHG Rule for New EGUs; Public Comment Period Begins

On September 20, 2013, US EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy signed a notice of a replacement proposed rule establishing standards of performance for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from new fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units (EGUs).  A whopping 110 days later, on January 8, 2014, the re-proposed rule has finally made its way into the pages … Continue Reading
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