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STATEMENT: U.S. EPA Announces Greenhouse Gas Standards for New Power Plants

September 20, 2013
Location: Washington, D.C.

The U.S.

RELEASE: New Analysis Shows Michigan is Well-Positioned to Meet Upcoming Carbon Pollution Standards

September 16, 2013
Location: Washington, D.C.

*Editor’s Note: Experts are available in Michigan and Washington, D.C.

RELEASE: New Analysis Shows North Carolina Can Meet Future Carbon Pollution Standards

September 5, 2013
Location: Washington, D.C.

New Analysis Shows North Carolina Can Meet Future Carbon Pollution Standards

*Editor’s Note: Experts are available in North Carolina and Washington, D.C.

STATEMENT: Obama Administration Finalizes Emissions Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles

August 28, 2012
Location: WASHINGTON

The Obama Administration announced the finalized historic fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for light-duty vehicles.

Vulnerability and Adaptation: Institutions

WRI focuses on helping institutions shift incentives, take on new mandates, and build capacity to support the process of integrating climate risks into day-to-day activities.

An Updated Response to EEI’s Timeline of Environmental Regulations

May, 2012

The largest electric power industry trade group, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), produced a slide in 2010 (updated in May 2011) that purports to display an onslaught of new requirements for power plants. WRI has identified four categories of EPA activities on the EEI timeline that are potentially misleading. This fact sheet updates the analysis done in our earlier response to EEI’s timeline of environmental regulations.

Summary of EPA Proposed Performance Standards for Power Plant GHG Emissions

By Franz Litz, Nicholas Bianco, and Kristin Meek on April 18, 2012

This summary provides

Fact Sheet: EPA Mercury Rules and Power Reliability

December, 2011

New rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions will affect dozens of antiquated power plants currently operating without pollution controls. These rules have stirred debate in some circles as to whether retrofitting or retiring outdated plants will cause shortfalls in electricity capacity. How will EPA mercury rules influence the electricity system? This fact sheet updates earlier assessments by taking a close look at recent studies on the reliability of the electricity grid to answer that question.

Is the Fit Right? Considering Technological Maturity in Designing Renewable Energy Policy

Jenna Goodward, Alex Perera, Nicholas Bianco, Christina Heshmatpour

August, 2011

This brief describes a number of policy tools that can be employed to drive investment in renewable energy technologies and discusses which policy options may be the best fit based on the commercial maturity of a targeted technology.

U.S. Federal Agencies and Climate Change

Working with EPA and other federal agencies to help design, inform and clarify U.S. government activities to reduce greenhouse gases.

U.S. Climate & Energy Legislation

WRI works to inform Congress about the opportunities and impacts of legislative proposals that affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to help shape federal policies that will lead the U.S. on a path of low-carbon growth.

Old Roads to a New Destination

By Nicholas Bianco and Franz Litz on April 29, 2011

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2011 edition of The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org), and is reposted with permission.

Dialogue on Performance Standards for Existing Power Plants: Participant Comments to EPA

By Franz Litz on April 21, 2011

In two legal challenges filed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, a number of states and non-governmental organizations sought to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

Myths and Facts about U.S. EPA Standards

By James Bradbury and Stephanie Hanson on April 19, 2011

WRI experts take closer look at some of the myths, inaccuracies, and misinformation surrounding Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases.

Bills That Would Limit the U.S. EPA's Clean Air Act Authorities

By James Bradbury on April 19, 2011

While the Senate recently defeated four bills or amendments that would restrict EPA’s authority, it r

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