Affordable?… Clean?… Energy Rule

The Clean Air Task Force criticizes the EPA's Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule for repealing the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and replacing it with a system focused on minor heat rate improvements for coal plants. The author contends that this approach ignores the existing trend of shifting toward cleaner energy sources and will lead to increased CO2 emissions and public health risks, including premature deaths. The document asserts that the ACE rule fails to employ the "best system of emission reduction" required by the Clean Air Act and announces plans to challenge the rule in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

• The Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule replaces the Clean Power Plan (CPP) by allowing coal plants to implement minor heat rate improvements, which the author claims will lead to increased carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants such as toxic mercury and deadly soot.
• The ACE rule is projected to increase emissions in 18 states and Washington, DC, with 28 percent of all coal plants expected to have higher total CO2 emissions by 2030.
• The EPA's own analysis for the proposed ACE rule estimated that replacing the CPP with ACE would result in 1,630 premature deaths, including over 1,400 from fine particulate matter and additional deaths from ozone smog.
• The final ACE rule is described as weaker than the proposal, predicting only a 1.5 percent efficiency increase at coal plants that make improvements, while 41 electric generating units (EGUs) are predicted to do nothing.

APA

Duffy, J. (2019). Affordable?… Clean?… Energy Rule. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2019/06/affordable-clean-energy-rule/

Chicago

Duffy, Jay. Affordable?… Clean?… Energy Rule. Clean Air Task Force, 2019. https://www.catf.us/2019/06/affordable-clean-energy-rule/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Duffy |first1=Jay |title=Affordable?… Clean?… Energy Rule |publisher=Clean Air Task Force |date=19 June 2019 |url=https://www.catf.us/2019/06/affordable-clean-energy-rule/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{duffy2019affordable, author = {Duffy, Jay}, title = {{Affordable?… Clean?… Energy Rule}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2019}, month = jun, url = {https://www.catf.us/2019/06/affordable-clean-energy-rule/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }