Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would delay imposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from existing gas-fired power plants so that it could take additional time to develop more comprehensive standards. In response, Trevor Higgins, senior vice president for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:
The EPA’s plan to set carbon pollution standards on coal power plants and newly built gas plants this spring will be a long-awaited and enormous step. But as the agency recognizes, this job is not done until Clean Air Act standards cover the entire fossil fuel fleet, including the gas power plants that are currently polluting today. Gas power plants are the largest source of energy generation in the United States and pose major public health risks. With this additional time, the agency must get it right on a comprehensive suite of pollution standards that will protect communities and the climate from gas power plants.
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