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With the shuttering of coal plants, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association estimates that over one million jobs will be lost. [13] With the coal industry aging, many coal mines are deteriorating and becoming costly to keep running. As a result, coal plants are no longer a reliable, go-to energy source for the United States. [11]
The EPA projects that the rule will yield up to $370 billion in climate and health net benefits and avoid nearly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, equivalent to preventing ...
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions ...
Between coal and gas plants, the EPA's new regulations are projected to eliminate 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, the same as preventing the annual emissions of 328 ...
1967 – California Air Resources Board established; set emissions standards predating EPA. 1967 – Air Quality Act (amendment to CAA) 1969 – Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act; 1969 – National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Presidential Executive ...
Energy Policy Act of 2005 as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection; Energy Policy Act of 2005 as enacted in the US Statutes at Large; H.R. 6 on Congress.gov; Department of Energy spotlight on the bill Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine - listing consumer savings (tax breaks).
A new, Republican-led joint resolution would declare Kentucky "a sanctuary state" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on fossil fuel-fired power plants, directing the state ...
The Electricity Security and Affordability Act is a bill that would repeal a pending rule published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on January 8, 2014. [1] The proposed rule would establish uniform national limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new electricity-generating facilities that use coal or natural gas.