ACC Statement in Response to EPA’s Final Clean Power Plan Regulation 8.3.2015
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The final Clean Power Plan continues EPA’s execution of President Obama’s legacy climate change agenda. It is a risky, expensive, and misguided regulatory scheme, devoid of any real climate impact. The increased emphasis on inefficient, intermittent renewables for electricity generation in the final plan only intensifies concerns about grid reliability. The Energy Information Administration projected closure of 90 gigawatts of coal capacity under EPA’s proposed plan. That’s nearly one third of the existing coal fleet, and that number is likely to rise under the final rule. With such drastic reductions, coal plants will be far less available to back up renewables or to buffer spiking natural gas prices.
The rule will impose enormous and unnecessary burdens on states, businesses, and families. It will raise electricity prices, disproportionately affecting those who can least afford it and driving American business and manufacturing offshore.
Click here to read our full statement on the EPA’s final Clean Power Plan regulation.
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