California Plan To Align Cap & Trade With ESPS Draws Stakeholder Concern

Utility officials and environmentalists are expressing initial concerns over a new California air board staff plan to align the state’s existing greenhouse gas cap-and-trade rules with EPA’s GHG rule for existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP). For example, some utility officials told California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff at a Feb. 24 workshop that they could face challenges in complying with the cap-and-trade program under staff’s latest plan to reduce compliance periods from three years to...