Inside Climate News: "The Supreme Court's EPA Ruling: A Loss for Authority for Federal Agencies or a Lesson for Conservatives in 'Be Careful What You Wish For?'"
This day-of analysis of the Supreme Court's decision to limit EPA's regulatory capacities references RFF scholars' work on cofiring policy options.
Instead, the court reads the law as saying EPA can only impose limitations on emissions within the fenceline of each individual power station. The think tank Resources for the Future has analyzed how the EPA could impose regulations limiting carbon emissions per megawatt-hour at coal power plants through technologies such as installing natural gas turbines onsite to assist in bringing down emissions—a strategy known as “co-firing” that some plants already have adopted to save money or address smog-forming pollutants.
