Clean Air Task Force and Partner Organizations’ Comments to EPA on Proposed Repeal of the Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Coal-fired and New Gas-fired Power Plants

CATF, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Sierra Club submitted comments strongly urging EPA to maintain the reasonable, cost-effective, and life-saving carbon pollution standards issued in 2024 and withdraw this proposed repeal. This comment addresses numerous legal deficiencies in EPA’s decision-making and interpretation of the Clean Air Act in its primary proposal.

CATF, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, EDF, NRDC, and Sierra Club submitted comments addressing the legal and factual deficiencies in EPA’s alternative proposal to repeal select standards of performance and emission guideline requirements based on unreasonable and unsupported reversals of prior determinations of the best system of emission reduction for those sources. Read our full comments here.

CATF and NRDC submitted comments on the portion of the proposal related to carbon capture and storage, which can be found here (the appendix can be found here).