{"id":2089,"date":"2013-06-26T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:52:54","slug":"deadlines-for-regulating-new-existing-power-plant-carbon-emissions-set-by-obama-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2013\/06\/26\/deadlines-for-regulating-new-existing-power-plant-carbon-emissions-set-by-obama-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlines for Regulating New &amp; Existing Power Plant Carbon Emissions Set by Obama Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>by Shelley Welton, Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Although President Obama\u2019s climate change speech on Tuesday, June 25 was relatively vague about the details of how carbon emissions from existing power plants would be regulated, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/assets\/documents\/global_warming\/White-House-Memo-to-EPA-Administrator-on-Power-Sector-Carbon-Pollution-Standards-June-25-2013.pdf\">memorandum he issued to the EPA<\/a> on that same day provides a few more interesting details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the memorandum notes, EPA already issued proposed standards to regulate carbon emissions from <i>new<\/i> power plants over a year ago, but has yet to finalize these and has indicated that it plans to release a new proposal.\u00a0 Obama\u2019s memo directs the EPA to issue this proposal by September 20, 2013, and to finalize the rule \u201cin a timely fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once EPA regulates new plants for a particular pollutant, the Clean Air Act requires that it also address pollution from existing plants, although it can do so in a different manner than new sources (the specifics of these requirements are located in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/42\/7411\">Section 111(d)<\/a>).\u00a0 There has been much speculation about what form the regulation of existing plants might take, and just when it might finally happen.\u00a0 Obama provides some answers in his memo.\u00a0 First, he instructs EPA to issue proposed \u201ccarbon pollution standards, regulations, or guidelines\u201d for existing plants by no later than June 1, 2014, and directs the agency to finalize its rules by June 1, 2015.\u00a0 States will have to come up with plans to implement the rules by June 2016.\u00a0 Second, he emphasizes that the administration favors the use of, \u201cto the greatest extent possible,\u201d market-based and other flexibility mechanisms that will allow for cost-effective carbon reduction strategies and state-specific tailoring. \u00a0This may hearten many of the early-mover states, such as the northeastern participants in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rggi.org\/\">Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative<\/a>, who are hoping their early efforts at regulating power plants are able to synchronize with whatever form the federal requirements ultimately take.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a concrete proposal yet, and as everyone acknowledges, it\u2019s a poor substitute for comprehensive Congressional action.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it\u2019s exciting to see deadlines and a presidential vision for regulating power plants\u2019 carbon emissions out on the table, especially seven months after an election season where the problem of climate change was unmentionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Shelley Welton, Fellow Although President Obama\u2019s climate change speech on Tuesday, June 25 was relatively vague about the details of how carbon emissions from existing power plants would be regulated, the memorandum he issued to the EPA on that same day provides a few more interesting details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5677,642,8460],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-clean-air-act","7":"category-congress","8":"category-epa","9":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadlines for Regulating New &amp; 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