The composition of tomorrow’s electricity generation mix dominates many of the energy policy debates held today. Reliability and affordability must remain prominent factors in the electricity sector transition already underway, but given the challenge posted by climate change, attention must be paid to the environmental impact of electricity sources. Efforts must be undertaken at the national, state, and local levels to facilitate energy innovation and company-driven and federally-sponsored research and development activities.
In the first and second parts of this series, we took a deeper dive into EPA’s new and improved Base Case projection accompanying the Clean Power Plan (CPP) Final Rule. Specifically, we looked at what the new projections held in store for coal-fired electricity generation and compared it to what EPA
They say a picture can be worth one-thousand words. In this case, however, it might be worth far more in summarizing the practical impact of the thousands of pages of regulatory text issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set forth and support its final carbon regulations for
In the first of this series, we examined the changes the Environmental Protection Agency made to its Base Case, or business as usual, power sector forecast in support of its Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for the Clean Power Plan Final Rule compared the Base Case it issued a few short months ago
WASHINGTON, DC – The Partnership for A Better Energy Future again expressed disappointment over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry operations. The proposed regulations could have a chilling effect on America’s energy
Note: As the Energy Institute's team of policy experts continue to analyze EPA's Clean Power Plan and other regulations, they are finding numerous inconsistencies and inaccurate assumptions. We'll be shedding light on what we find through a series of blog posts we call "EPA's Fuzzy Math." Today's