Carbon Rules for Power Plants

American Lung Association v. EPA Opinion

• ALA v EPA Opinion

NGO Petitioners Final Opening and Reply Briefs – CATF and our Partner Petitioners filed Opening and Reply Briefs in our case challenging EPA’s decision to rescind the Clean Power Plan and replace it with the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which does little or nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest industrial source of such pollution.

• NGO Final Opening Brief (Aug. 13, 2020)
• NGO Final Reply Brief (Aug. 13, 2020)

Public Health and Environmental Coalition Files Respondent Intervenor Brief Urging D.C. Circuit to Reject Petitions to Eliminate EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant GHG Emissions

• 19-1140 NGOs Initial Respondent Intervenor Br 7-16-20

Public Health and Environmental Coalition files Opening Brief Arguing D.C. Circuit Should Vacate Unlawful Rollback of Clean Power Plan

• Opening Brief

CATF and other eNGO comments on EPA's Review of Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, Proposed Rule

• CATF et al Carbon Standards Review Comments

CATF and Joint comments on the US EPA's Proposed Affordable Clean Energy Rule: Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Electric Generating Units; Revisions to Emission Guideline Implementing Regulations; Revisions to New Source Review Program, 83 Fed. Reg. 44,746 (Aug. 31, 2018)

• CATF Comments
• CATF/NRDC Comments on CCS
• CATF/NRDC Comments on CCS - Appendix A
• CATF/NRDC Comments on CCS - Appendix B
• CATF/NRDC et al. Comments on Biomass
• Joint NGO Comments on New Source Review Regulatory Changes
• Joint NGO Comments on Best System of Emission Reduction
• Joint NGO Comments on Regulatory Impact Analysis
• Joint NGO Comments on proposed revision to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act
• Joint NGO Comments on Climate Science and Climate Change

Comments on the Repeal of Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 82 Fed. Reg. 48,035 (Oct. 16, 2017).

• Joint NGO Comments
• Joint Comments Specific to the “Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Review of the Clean Power Plan: Proposal”

Comments of Clean Air Task Force on State Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Electric Utility Generating Units, 82 Fed. Reg. 61,507 (Dec. 28, 2017)

• CATF Comments
• Joint NGO Comments

• Comments on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Improper Prejudgment of Outcome of Proposed Repeal of Clean Power Plan

• Comments of Clean Air Task Force on Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details, 81 Fed. Reg. 42,940

Comments of Clean Air Task Force and Conservation Law Foundation on "Federal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electric Utility Generating Units Constructed on or before January 8, 2014; Model Trading Rules; Amendments to Framework Regulations; Proposed Rule," 80 Fed. Reg. 64,966

• Comments of Clean Air Task Force and Conservation Law Foundation

Comments and Technical Appendices for the Clean Power Plan - Carbon Pollution Emissions Guidelines for Existing EGUs, 79 Fed. Reg. 34,830

• Comments
• Technical Appendix A - CCS Modeling Assumptions
• Table 1 to Technical Appendix A
• Technical Appendix B - CCS Retrofit

Comments and Technical Appendix on Carbon Pollution Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 79 Fed. Reg. 34,960

• Comments
• Technical Appendix

• Comments on Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Stationary Sources

• Comments on NSPS Proposed Rule Regulating Greenhouse Gases from New Electrical Generating Power Plants