EPA Clean Power Plan Introduced
EPA: Clean Power Plan The Environmental Protection Agency has released a plan recently that will change how Colorado’s electric co-ops distribute electricity to its end users. The new regulation lays the way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the United States by 30 percent by the year 2030. Fht Clean Power Plan sets a cap for coal fired and gas fired plants in the United States, which is different that the previous rule that bases emissions on state specific variables. EPA outlines three tools that can be used to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. Those three tools are: increased use of natural gas over coal, increased use of renewable energy for power and the use of purchasing and selling of emissions credits among utilities. According to an article in the September 2015 edition of Colorado Country Life many of the earlier power plants were build to use coal and still have a useful life and produce affordable electricity. Furthermore, the article cites the fact that...