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EPA’s Mercury Regulation Rollback Could Increase Energy Costs

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 by Alyssa Danigelis

The Trump administration moved to loosen regulations governing mercury and other air pollutants from oil and coal-powered plants. An EPA rule introduced this week could potentially increase costs for utilities, affecting electricity rates.

Energy Management Stakes High in Fight over EPA Pollution Rules

February 21, 2020May 8, 2020 by Alyssa Danigelis

As the EPA moves to loosen pollution rules for coal- and oil-fired power plants, the country’s power sector wants to keep complying with the Obama-era standards. The outcome could affect corporate energy management, particularly renewables procurement.

Senators Make Sure Wheeler Knows They Oppose Changes to Mercury Rule

March 18, 2019November 19, 2019 by Jennifer Hermes

A handful of US Senators have sent a letter to EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler saying they strongly oppose a December, 2018, proposal that could “lead to the undoing of the Mercury Rule.” The proposal finds that it is no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate mercury and air toxic emissions ... Read more »

Report: US Coal Consumption Plummets to 39-Year Low

December 6, 2018February 24, 2021 by Emily Holbrook

New data from the US Energy Information Association (EIA) shows that total US coal consumption has fallen to the lowest level since 1979. US coal consumption peaked in 2007, but has been falling since, due mostly to the decline in coal use in the electric power sector. According to ... Read more »

US Coal Fleet Is Shrinking. What to do with Retired Coal-Fired Power Plants?

October 25, 2016December 5, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As coal-fired power plants retire in record numbers across the US, a brownfield redevelopment firm and Indiana state officials plant to turn one retired coal plant into a port.

Rule to Limit Mercury Emissions is Having an Impact Despite Uncertainty in the Courts

July 12, 2016July 11, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

The US Energy Information Administration has said that most coal plants are either coming into compliance with mercury rules or they are retiring their older coal units that are too expensive to retrofit. From December 2014 until June 2016, coal-fired capacity fell from 299,000 megawatts to 276,000 megawatts. Coal-fired generation's share of total electricity generation fell from 39 percent in

Mercury Rule Looks Like It Will Take Effect Now that the High Court Won’t Step In, Again

June 14, 2016June 13, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

The Obama administration racked up a key victory over its mercury rule after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on Monday. It”s an indication that the high court will remain sympathetic to the US Environmental Protection Agency on a host of ecological issues, especially in light of ... Read more »

Supreme Court’s Mercury Decision Spells Further Trouble for Coal

March 4, 2016March 3, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

For the second time in just a few weeks, the coal-consuming-and-producing states have tried for a Hail Mary — to get the US Supreme Court to delay the implementation of EPA rules. This time: the mercury rule, which had previously been kicked back down to the federal district court in ... Read more »

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Air Pollution Rule

March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chief Justice John Roberts today denied an attempt to block, or “stay,” a contentious air pollution rule for power plants. Roberts’s order represents a big win for the Obama administration’s climate agenda. Last year the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards is illegal, sending ... Read more »

MATS Compliance Help for Power Plant Operators

February 4, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Late last year a federal appeals court upheld the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. To help power plant operators comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and reduce emissions, ADA-ED has launched ADA Health Check. The new service provides a compliance strategy ... Read more »

Court Upholds Power Plant Mercury Pollution Rule

December 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A federal appeals court has upheld the the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, despite a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the rule, saying the agency failed to take into account the costs the air pollution rule would impose on utilities. The Court of ... Read more »

Why the Clean Power Plan Will Survive in Court

August 4, 2015 by Karen Henry

The “Just Say No” campaign fighting the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is gambling the public will overlook an important detail. Almost all major Clean Air Act rules that have so successfully protected human health and the environment in recent years have undergone intense legal challenges – and most of those challenges ... Read more »

EPA’s Mercury Regulation Rollback Could Increase Energy Costs

Energy Management Stakes High in Fight over EPA Pollution Rules

Senators Make Sure Wheeler Knows They Oppose Changes to Mercury Rule

Report: US Coal Consumption Plummets to 39-Year Low

US Coal Fleet Is Shrinking. What to do with Retired Coal-Fired Power Plants?

Rule to Limit Mercury Emissions is Having an Impact Despite Uncertainty in the Courts

Mercury Rule Looks Like It Will Take Effect Now that the High Court Won’t Step In, Again

Supreme Court’s Mercury Decision Spells Further Trouble for Coal

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Air Pollution Rule

MATS Compliance Help for Power Plant Operators

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