News about EPA, power plant

The Biden-Harris @EPA's new power plant safeguards are a BFD! Not only will they dramatically slash both carbon and toxic pollution, but they will also hold Big Polluters accountable. This is a huge victory for clean energy and clean air 👏 www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/climate/joe-biden-climate-global-warming.html

Two of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly proposed coal-plant pollution rules may offer the broadest tools yet for forcing cleanup of coal ash pollution—a responsibility power-plant operators have long skirted. energynews.us/2024/04/25/new-epa-rules-close-a-huge-loophole-on-coal-ash-forcing-wide-scale-cleanup-advocates-say/

"The fundamental grid reliability challenge heading into the 2030s is that governments will not let markets build what they are motivated to finance, even without subsidies." bit.ly/3wjseil @DC_Hartman

"This strategy would shift investment patterns to lower efficiency gas plants—specifically more combustion turbines than combined cycle facilities—which would increase per unit emissions." bit.ly/44nNNuP @DC_Hartman