… Now the EPA is saying ‘OK, you have to do it,’ and I don’t think they really can.” “There have been so many arguments that they’ve made in favor of CCS as a mature technology. “The EPA is calling the bluff on the power industry,” said Charles Harvey, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the end, some told Grist that fossil fuel power plants could find it more economical to shut down and switch to renewable energy. Although the EPA says CCS technology is “ adequately demonstrated” and “highly cost-effective,” experts are deeply skeptical that it can deliver on its promised emissions reductions. In contrast to previously proposed regulations that required “generation-shifting” - forcing utility companies to replace their fossil fuel-fired power generators with renewables, a strategy that the Supreme Court shot down last summer - the new proposal focuses on what’s achievable using technologies like carbon capture and storage, or CCS.Īt least, they focus on what’s theoretically achievable based on optimistic projections from CCS’s proponents.
Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, on Thursday proposed a new rule to nearly eliminate climate pollution from the nation’s coal- and natural gas-fired power plants by 2040. Now, federal regulators are asking them to walk the walk. For years, fossil fuel companies and utilities have touted carbon capture and storage, or CCS, as a way to cut climate pollution from the power sector.
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