The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a new draft of proposed greenhouse gas rules for future power plants to the White House, Politico reported Monday.
The EPA’s drafted rules were sent to the Obama administration less than a week after the president gave a speech outlining his plan to combat climate change and called on the agency to thwart carbon pollution from the power industry. The contents of the draft are confidential, although the rules are expected to disadvantage coal-fueled plants.
An incarnation of the draft with strict emission rules was released in April 2012, but the EPA failed to file a final version by April of this year. Obama has set a Sept. 20 deadline for the rules for future power plants to be released to the public.
