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“EPA seeks to save the [final rule for the CAA] by adopting an interpretation of the phrase ‘regulated under [Section 112]’ that the agency never suggested before litigation in this court this year”, the attorneys general said. This common-sense plan will...

Some are embracing the new regulations as a chance for Kentucky to improve public health and the environment by moving away from coal and the pollution it causes during mining and burning.

Before this plan, there were no limits to the amount of carbon pollution that coal power plants (we have seven in North Dakota) dumped into our atmosphere wreaking havoc on our health and climate.

President Obama recently unveiled a new rule to combat climate change by forcing state’s like Virginia to cut their carbon pollution. New York is a proud member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which is a cap-and-trade effort of Northeastern states to...

“There is tremendous potential for energy savings performance contracting and distributed generation to support the Clean Power Plan, and we will continue to advocate for states to maximize those opportunities”, said Sakellaris.

The Clean Power Plan establishes a Clean Energy Incentive Program, which will be proposed today and allows for renewable energy and low-income energy efficiency to earn additional credits, as an incentive for states to include these measures in their compliance plans. While the...

Thirty-one states’ targets were loosened, but the tougher goals for the others make the overall plan more ambitious than the original proposal.

Obama announced on Monday that power plant owners must cut carbon dioxide emissions by 32% from 2005 levels by 2030. Contrast that to a state like West Virginia, where 95 percent of the energy comes from coal plants, and you can see how some states will have to change their...

Indeed, the new rules are more likely to lead to job creation as industries shift to adopt cleaner technologies and develop renewable energy sources. In West Virginia and Kentucky, two big coal producers, it makes up more than 50% of the total, for example, while in Vermont and...

Sixteen states will have tougher carbon dioxide reduction targets than they originally planned now that President Barack Obama has presented his final plan to cut emissions from U.S. power plants.

Over the next few years, each state will have the chance to create its own plan, he said, adding: “We’ll reward the states that take action sooner.” The plan aims to reduce carbon emissions some 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. A cabinet spokesman noted that...

US President Barack Obama has unveiled an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the country’s coal-burning power plants, with the White House hoping that nations like India and China will be fully on board for a landmark climate change deal in Paris.

States have time until September 2016 to submit plans based on targets set for them by the EPA, but must comply by 2022.

The plan aims to cut carbon pollution 32 percent by the year 2030. Stanford University, Brookings Institution, Friends of the Earth, R Street Institute and others submitted joint comments to the EPA advocating for a carbon tax in the final Clean Power Plan. I’m cautiously...

The so-called Clean Power Plan aims to require the nation’s existing power plants to slash their carbon emissions – 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.