Stories: U.S. Climate Action

This post originally appeared on the National Journal Energy & Environment blog.

Keeping track of reports on the potential impacts of EPA regulations is becoming a full time job. Dr. Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at the Analysis Group and WRI Director, provides a “field guide” to these studies, and explains what they might mean for the power supply landscape in the next few years.

Industry concerns about new permitting requirements are exaggerated. Here’s why.

Based on the cutting edge research of WRI’s report, a new tool allows users to navigate U.S. emissions by sector and see what federal agencies are doing to reduce them.

After years of delay, EPA gets back on track in issuing rules that provide a path to a cleaner power fleet.

Research shows that environmental regulations end up costing far less than both industry and the EPA predict.

The Clean Air Act would spur energy efficiency upgrades, boosting competitiveness for many U.S. manufacturers.

Given the built-in limitations on EPA authority contained in the Clean Air Act, fears of agency “overreach” are misplaced.

While federal climate change legislation has stalled, federal agencies, states, and Congress made some progress on controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the past two years.