InsideEPA: “New Analysis Sees ‘Backstop’ Role for Biden EPA Power Plant GHG Rule”
A new peer-reviewed study coauthored by several RFF scholars is the subject of this piece.
A new analysis from economists and other researchers finds the Biden EPA's power plant greenhouse gas standards would slash even more emissions than the agency projected and that the rule would provide a key backstop in the event high-emissions coal power generation increases, though the rule is unlikely to survive the incoming Trump EPA...
Specifically, the research projects carbon dioxide emissions at 73 to 86 percent below 2005 levels if the rule is fully implemented, compared with 60 to 83 percent without the rule. In other words, the rules could drive "steeper reductions and a narrower uncertainty range" than in a scenario without the rules, Resources for the Future (RFF), the think tank from which several study authors hail, says in a Jan. 9 press release.
