If States Don’t Make Carbon-Cutting Plans, the Feds Will Do It for Them

"We certainly hope every state will feel it’s in their best interest to develop their own plan," McCabe said. "But we do have an obligation to have a state plan available for states that don’t submit their own."

The Obama administration is delaying rules aimed at curbing carbon emissions from power plants and will write a separate implementation plan for states that have threatened to refuse to submit their own.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it needs time to deal with overlapping issues raised in comments on the proposal to deal with new plants — for which final rules were due Thursday — and the rules for existing and modified plants that were due in June. EPA will issue final rules under a combined process by "mid-summer," said Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator for the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation.

By David Conti

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