Industry What I’m Thankful For: EPA’s Strong Resolve to Press for Deep Carbon Pollution Reductions Under the Clean Air Act

The author defends the EPA's use of the Clean Air Act to mandate deep carbon pollution reductions in the power industry, rejecting claims by certain members of Congress that federal subsidies for clean coal projects prohibit those technologies from being used to set performance standards. The author asserts that the EPA relies on a global array of projects to demonstrate that carbon capture and sequestration is a viable 'best system of emissions control'.

• The author contends that the EPA is legally mandated to be 'forward-looking' and 'technology-forcing' when setting performance standards for new pollution sources under the Clean Air Act to ensure meaningful advances in air quality.
• The author disputes claims made by Representatives Whitfield, Upton, Barton, and Scalise that the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) prevents the EPA from basing performance standards on technologies that received federal subsidies.
• The EPA's proposed performance standard of 1100 pounds of CO2 per MW-hr for new coal plants constructed after 2014 is supported by evidence from various industrial applications globally, some operating for over 30 years, rather than relying solely on subsidized US projects.
• Specific projects cited as evidence for the adequacy of carbon capture and sequestration technology include the Dakota Gasification facility in the United States and the SaskPower Boundary Dam Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project in Estevan, Saskatchewan.
• The electric power industry is identified as representing approximately 40 percent of all stationary source CO2 emissions in the United States.

APA

Weeks, A. (2014). Industry What I’m Thankful For: EPA’s Strong Resolve to Press for Deep Carbon Pollution Reductions Under the Clean Air Act. Clean Air Task Force. https://www.catf.us/2014/11/what-im-thankful-for-epas-strong-resolve/

Chicago

Weeks, Ann. Industry What I’m Thankful For: EPA’s Strong Resolve to Press for Deep Carbon Pollution Reductions Under the Clean Air Act. Clean Air Task Force, 2014. https://www.catf.us/2014/11/what-im-thankful-for-epas-strong-resolve/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{weeks2014industry, author = {Weeks, Ann}, title = {{Industry What I’m Thankful For: EPA’s Strong Resolve to Press for Deep Carbon Pollution Reductions Under the Clean Air Act}}, publisher = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2014}, month = nov, url = {https://www.catf.us/2014/11/what-im-thankful-for-epas-strong-resolve/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }