Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels Solar Power 
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 9, 2021
My last post argued that EPA should immediately repeal the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 21, 2024
The statute points to section 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act to define lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions—exactly as was done for the simultaneously passed section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Credit. Clean must mean clean, meaning no polluter loopholes, and no polluter giveaways.
Law Columbia
JANUARY 6, 2014
The most prominent of the initiatives in the Climate Action Plan aims to use Section 111 of the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and other fossil-fueled power plants. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The Ninth Circuit further concluded that even if the first prong was satisfied, the plaintiffs did not “surmount the remaining hurdle” of establishing that the relief they sought was within the power of Article III courts. The Ninth Circuit found, however, that the plaintiffs had not established the redressability requirement for standing.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 14, 2023
Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Last year, wind generated 10.2 percent , and the 19.8
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