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• Message to the EPA Administrator: Power Plant MACT Rules Must Meet Best In Breed Standard

  Dear Ms. Jackson: EPA’s recent industrial boiler air toxics regulations – even compared with the draft rules proposed last Spring – disappointed on several significant fronts.  As we at Clean Air Task Force see it, EPA’s “Boiler MACT” rule: Weakened emission limits by transparently fiddling with and adding new boiler…

  Electricity, Industry March 7, 2011

• Practical Cooperation on Coal, Climate

  In his just-published remarks to the Washington Post prior to Wednesday’s upcoming summit with President Obama, Chinese President Hu called for “common ground” and “practical cooperation” between the two countries. From the standpoint of confronting our greatest mutual challenge — global climate change — the two largest emitters of greenhouse…

  Electricity, Industry January 18, 2011

• Geological CO2 storage: Risky Business or Promising Solution?

  Worldwide, a staggering 36 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) are emitted into the atmosphere each year, with 25% of the total coming from power generation. The good news is: today’s technology can already capture CO2 emissions from fossil energy plants and inject and permanently lock them deep underground…

  Industry, Technology December 16, 2010

• EPA’s New Rules Pave Way for Geologic Sequestration of CO2

  It may sound like science fiction, but what if we could “scrub” all the carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants and inject it deep into the Earth, permanently locking it up in rocks? Well, this is fact, not fiction, and it’s called carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).  And it…

  Industry, Policy, Technology November 22, 2010