The Environmental Protection Agency finalized four new rules Thursday that set tougher emissions limits on coal and new gas-fired power plants, taking restrictions further than the agency's earlier proposed regulation and sparking fierce backlash from industry groups that are likely to mount a challenge in court.
four new rules Thursday that set tougher emissions limits on coal and new gas-fired power plants, taking restrictions further than the agency’s earlier proposed regulation and sparking fierce backlash from industry groups that are likely to mount a challenge in court.
It requires all coal-fired plants and new baseload gas-fired plants operating past 2039 to control 90% of their carbon pollution, which department officials estimate will cut down on 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, or the equivalent of the annual emissions of 328 million gas-fired cars.
The third rule cracks down on wastewater pollution from coal-fired power plants. The final regulation, established under the Clean Water Act, sets so-called Effluent Limitation Guidelines, or ELGs, on four types of wastewater released by coal-fired power plants: flue gas desulfurization wastewater, bottom ash transport water, combustion residual leachate, and “legacy wastewater” created by the disposal of coal ash.
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