In response to Chairman Waxman’s inquiry, EPA reveals that its proposed rule to weaken the Clean Air Act new source review requirements for power plants could allow power plants to increase their CO2 emissions by up to 74 million tons per year, which is roughly equivalent to the total annual CO2 emissions of about 14 average coal-fired power plants.
Documents and Links
Letter from EPA (4 MB)- Data Spreadsheet #1 (2 MB)
- Data Spreadsheet #2 (07-11-05) (4 MB)
- Data Spreadsheet #3 (07-05-06) (4 MB)
- Data Spreadsheet #4 (04-27-06) (4 MB)
