WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—August 3, 2015. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules to reduce carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Electric power plants produce approximately 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — amounting to almost 40 percent of the United States’ total annual emissions. EPA’s regulations will cut carbon pollution from existing power plants by 32 percent, below 2005 levels, by 2030 and set limits on the amount of carbon pollution that new or modified power plants can emit.
