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EPA Proposes To Ease Methane NSPS, Previewing Additional Deregulation

EPA's newly released proposal to ease methane limits for new oil and gas equipment is just the first stage of a process that would scuttle direct regulatory limits on the potent greenhouse gas, as Trump officials broadly seek to reduce regulatory burdens imposed on the sector by the prior administration.

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Health Risk Dispute Over EPA's ACE Rule Focuses On Regulatory Baseline

As criticism mounts over the health risks posed by the Trump EPA's proposal to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) governing power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, a key difference between the two sides hinges on the rule's baseline and whether to compare the effects of the new “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule to the CPP's.

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EPA Floated, But Dropped, Plan To 'Decline' CO2 Rules In ACE Proposal

The Trump EPA in its draft proposal to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) to cut utility sector greenhouse gases wanted to solicit comment on not regulating the sector's carbon dioxide emissions at all, according to newly released documents, though Trump officials ultimately dropped that possibility in the final proposal.

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Kavanaugh Hints At CPP Opposition With Attack On Agency Policymaking

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is hinting that he would vote to strike down the Obama EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) utility greenhouse gas rule, attacking agencies for relying on ambiguities in “old law” to justify novel new policymaking efforts after they fail to convince Congress to approve legislation to authorize the policies.

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EPA Faces Criticism For Rejecting Co-firing In Power Plant GHG Proposal

EPA is facing criticism for rejecting co-firing coal with natural gas and biomass as strategies states must consider under its recently proposed “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) rule to limit power plant greenhouse gases, with sources arguing the agency is intentionally constraining itself from achieving meaningful GHG reductions from co-firing.

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CPP Backers Renew Push For D.C. Circuit To Issue Long-Delayed Ruling

States and environmentalists that support the Obama EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) utility greenhouse gas rule are renewing their calls for an appellate court to issue its long-delayed ruling on the merits of the policy, a move that likely would create hurdles for Trump EPA efforts to replace the rule with a much narrower measure.

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Suit On EPA Drill Permit Could Set 'Negative' NEPA Precedent, Industry Says

As the Trump administration moves to roll back and streamline agency requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), environmentalists are pursuing litigation against EPA that industry groups say could set a “negative precedent” expanding those requirements by barring EPA from using another agency's analysis.

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EPA Plans Update To CWA 401 Program But Faces Strong State Pushback

STOWE, VT -- EPA is launching an effort to revise its Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 program that governs states' approval of federally permitted pipelines and other projects, but is facing major pushback from state regulators, including at least one GOP official, who question the need for changes and oppose any diminution of their power.

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States Hope Revised Senate Bill Preserves Powers Under CWA Section 401

STOWE, VT -- Oklahoma's top regulator says state officials are hoping Senate Republicans revise their bill limiting states' authority under Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401, seeking to ensure that it preserves current state authority to consider impacts of “activities” related to a project rather than simply “discharges.”

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EAB Judges Wrestle With Mandating Battery Storage As Gas Utility BACT

EPA Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) judges at Aug. 30 oral argument wrestled with the extent to which the Clean Air Act requires permit applicants to apply novel emissions controls to satisfy best available control technology (BACT) mandates, with environmentalists seeking to establish battery power storage as BACT for a gas-fired power plant.

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