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openleft.com - 11/14/2008
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The Sierra Club has just won a case before the EPA appeals board which will make it very hard to build new coal plants unless they actually have carbon mitigating technology in place. Looks like we're headed to clean coal or no coal (of course with the requisite caveats that this case ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/14/2008
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In a landmark action, the Environmental Protection Agency’s
final decision-making board has ruled that all new and...
proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated. The Environmental Appeals Board ruled today ...
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Breaking: EPA Appeals Board Strikes Down Construction Of ...
usatoday.com - 11/14/2008
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usatoday.com —
The EPA's appeals board said the agency didn't
adequately justify its decision last year not to require...
controls for carbon dioxide emissions when it tentatively issued a permit for Deseret Power Electric Cooperative's planned coal plant near Vernal, ...
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Coal power plants may have to limit emissions
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... no valid reason for refusing to place limits on the global warming emissions from Desert Power’s proposed 110-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Vernal, Utah.
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The 69-page decision described the Bush administration’s arguments as “weak,” “questionable,” “not sustainable,” and “not sufficient,” and rebuked EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson for failing to issue CO2 regulations, repeatedly recommending an “action of nationwide scope.”
As Matt Stoller puts it:
One of the claims of the coal industry - that there's ...
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