2005 Clean Air Act Electricity Pollution Control 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. electricity to about one-fifth today. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. electricity use hit a ceiling , and it has risen only slightly since then.
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. EPA CAIR Modeling Analysis, March 2005.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4
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