Obama Administration Unveils Clean Power Plan

President Obama unveiled the final Clean Power Plan (CPP) this past weekend – the first ever national standard to address CO2 pollution from power plants. The CPP sets strong standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability. For the plan highlights and analysis, read on!

To achieve the CPP's emissions goal, the EPA identified three building blocks essential for reducing the carbon emissions of electricity generation:

• Building Block 1: improving the heat rate of existing coal‐fired power plants.
• Building Block 2: increasing electricity generation from lower‐emitting existing natural gas plants and reducing generation from higher‐ emitting coal‐fired power plants.