Early Clean Power Planning

Deck: 

A hedging strategy for sec. 111(d).

Fortnightly Magazine - February 2015
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By December 2, 2014, almost 4 million comments were filed on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan, a proposal to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants.1 In January, EPA announced that it plans to finalize its Clean Power Plan rule in the summer of 2015. State compliance plans will be due a year later, in the summer of 20162 While the schedule is set, there remains substantial uncertainty — about the shape of the final rule, about whether Congress will step in, and about the outcome of expected legal challenges.

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