Tag: Says No

What If Your State ‘Just Says No’ to the Clean Power Rule?

By Clare Condon Jun 5, 2015 Environmental Permitting

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

The Senate Majority Leader is itching to pass legislation that allows your state to opt out of the Obama administration’s CPP rule. Some states are trying to pass laws so that their legislatures will be able to veto the rule, and Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently issued an Executive Order prohibiting the state’s Department of […]

EPA Rules and the National Power Grid

By Clare Condon Dec 14, 2011 EHS Management

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

According to critics, at least eight proposed or final EPA rules (air, water, and waste) may force the retirement of up to 81 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity. (The Energy Information Administration says the total installed generating capacity of the U.S. electric power grid is about 1,119 GW with approximately 330 GW coal-fired.) About […]