Report Says ESPS Needed To Drive GHG Cuts Despite Lower-Carbon Trends

Environmentalists are sharpening an argument that EPA's existing power plant greenhouse gas rule is necessary to secure emissions cuts despite market trends toward lower-carbon generation, though they are also laying the groundwork for efforts to cite those trends as a reason for a future administration to strengthen the rule. The arguments come in a Sept. 14 report from the Center for Climate & Energy Solutions (C2ES), which highlighted “consensus conclusions” from five separate modeling studies of EPA's existing source performance...