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The largest trade group for electric utilities in the United States said this week that it is Join litigation To challenge the Biden administration's new rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions from new coal and gas-based power plants.
Edison Electric Institute said It supports the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector, but its members oppose the EPA's decision that carbon capture and sequestration technology should be a “basis for compliance” with the regulation.
“CO2 capture and storage is an emerging technology, and EPA’s implementation timelines do not align with current reality,” EEI President Dan Brouillette He saidnoting that no coal or natural gas-fired power plants currently meet the EPA's carbon capture and storage requirements.
“Throughout the rulemaking process, we have repeatedly raised concerns that carbon capture and storage is not yet ready for widespread industry-wide deployment, and there is insufficient time to permit, finance, and build the infrastructure needed to comply by 2032,” Brouillette said.
The final power plant rule issued last month effectively requires coal-fired and new gas-fired plants to install equipment in the next decade to capture emissions before they reach the atmosphere.
The Electric Power Initiative joins Republican attorneys general from 27 states in the lawsuit, as well as the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and some individual members of the Electric Power Initiative, including American Electric Power (AEP), Duke Energy (DUK), and Vistra ( VST); The proposal filed in the D.C. Circuit is the first step in a legal process that could take years.
An analysis by Politico shows that the organization can do just that Accelerating the demise of the US coal industry.
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