EPA Releases Plan to Repeal Clean Power Plan and Save Up to $33 Billion in Compliance Costs

SUGAR LAND--October 11, 2017--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on Tuesday released a formal notification of his agency's proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) enacted by the Obama administration to lower power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The agency's proposed repeal of the CPP could save up to $33 billion in compliance costs in 2030, the EPA estimated.

Within this article: Details on how the EPA's decision could play out in Washington, D.C., and beyond.