EPA Rejects FERC Call For New Process To Assess ESPS Reliability Issues

EPA senior air office counsel Joseph Goffman appears to be rejecting calls from Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner (FERC) Tony Clark for the two entities to create an intensive new process to assess potential adverse reliability impacts of the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for existing power plants. While Goffman rejected Clark's call for a new reliability assessment process, he said EPA was still weighing Clark's separate call to issue a guidance delineating the scope of the agency's authority in the...