ADA Environmental Solutions Benefiting From EPA's New Coal-Fired Power Plant Regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has "no plans" to develop regulations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for currently operating coal-fired power plants. That's according to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who spoke after a ruling that capped only CO2 emissions for coal plants not yet under construction, and then only to the level of a new natural gas-fired plant.

Barack Obama cannot deliver on his promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17% without decisive new actions, a report warned on Wednesday.

“Once people hear that the economics are very good, maybe we won’t have everybody dash to gas and throw out coal. We hope the rest of the world can learn from our plant.” A technology that holds the hope for cleaner use of coal will be tested on a commercial scale for the first time in Canada next year, aiming to resolve big uncertainties about the vast amount of power it will need.

By Tony Daltorio:The U.S. power industry is facing the biggest shock wave to hit it since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. But this time it is no accident, it is the very intentional actions of the U.S. government which will hit the utility industry. More specifically, it is Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are putting coal-fired power plants under threat.

The development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius this century is slipping out of reach.

The chart above shows the significant reduction in coal's share of total U.S.

Kent Moors submits: This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) again gave notice that it intends to curb non-carbon emissions at U.S. power plants.

With senators beginning to whine that John Kerry is annoying them by talking climate when they want to talk midterms, it's worth thinking seriously about what can be done on climate change in the absence of a bill that prices carbon. Jon Chait makes the argument for the EPA option, and Brad Plumer picks up the ball: