The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed tougher rules to cut lung-damaging smog pollution from power plants and industrial sources as part of the agency’s broader effort to clean up the power sector.
The "Good Neighbor" proposal would target a roughly 29% cut in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides from power plants by 2026, along with a 15% reduction from other industrial sources, by encouraging more consistent use of pollution control equipment, according to a fact sheet provided by the agency.
"We don’t have to overly rely on any one policy or rulemaking to achieve our mission and ensure affordable and reliable energy," he said on Thursday at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. Running pollution controls to target one pollutant can often lead to cuts in greenhouse gases as a co-benefit.
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