Electric companies are pushing back against the EPA’s proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, arguing the plan to slash carbon emissions relies on costly, unreliable technology that is not “legally or technically sound.”
Following the closing of the public comment period, the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association representing all of the United States’s investor-owned electric companies, issued its comments on the EPA’s proposed rules to address greenhouse gas emissions and existing fossil-based electric generation. The rules, which were unveiled in May, would require steep pollution cuts from plants burning coal or natural gas.
The electric companies pushed back on the EPA’s assessment of carbon capture and sequestration and hydrogen blending as the “best system of emission reductions” for coal-powered plants or natural gas-based turbines, with the agency arguing these methods are “adequately demonstrated.” “Given the status of these technologies today and the uncertainty inherent in EPA’s future projections — especially regarding the ability to deploy the needed infrastructure that complements these technologies across the industry in a timely fashion — EPA’s assessments are not legally or technically sound based on the record before the Agency,” the comment reads.
Resistance from EEI and other energy groups could pose a hurdle to the administration’s climate agenda. President Joe Biden has set a goal of achieving a carbon, pollution-free energy sector by 2035 and a net-zero emissions economy no later than 2050.
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