New EPA Emissions Met With Resistance & Praise In Georgia
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
New Environmental Protection Agency rules for carbon emission reductions for the nations’ power plants met alternately with official resistance or silence in Georgia Monday.
The proposed rules call for a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030. Rather than being set from a universal baseline for all states, EPA officials say they came up with state by state goals by looking at present state emission levels and imagining what they call a “reasonable application” of technology could produce.
Agency officials said the decision on which technologies to use was up to each state to decide on its own.
