FINANCIAL TIMES: US electricity generators with coal-fired plants were spared from one of the more demanding new regulations planned by the administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, when an appeals court struck down the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which set tight limits on pollution from burning coal…
Generators had warned that the rule, alongside new regulations controlling other emissions such as mercury, would force widespread closures of coal-fired plants, potentially putting the reliability of electricity supplies at risk.
The issue had also become highly politicised, with Republicans including Mitt Romney, the presidential candidate, accusing the administration of waging a “war on coal”… (more)
