In what could be a break-through moment for combined heat and power technology (CHP), also known as cogeneration, the President today announced a national goal to increase industrial energy efficiency in the U.S by deploying 40 gigawatts of new CHP generated power by 2020. Industry and regulators […]
Read more →EPA Administrator Jackson today announced final rules establishing an historic CAFE standard of 54.mpg to be achieved by car and light truck fleets by 2025. This rulemaking builds on the Obama Administration’s 35.5 mpg CAFE standard for 2011-2016 car and light truck fleets adopted in 2010. Combined, […]
Read more →In a major blow to EPA’s continuing efforts to regulate emissions that migrate across state lines and cause air quality non-attainment problems in downwind states, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on August 21, 2012 rejected EPA’s 2011 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) as […]
Read more →In early August, a panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the oil and gas industry – and perhaps many other sectors — an unexpected victory by remanding for reconsideration EPA’s Clean Air Act “single source” determination for Summit Petroleum Corporation. The Court held that […]
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