The United States Environmental Protection Agency s new rule designed to slash carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired plants gives wide latitude to power plant unit operators and states to make adjustments to support electric grid reliability. Despite that flexibility, West Virginia is co-leading a federal lawsuit challenging the rule under Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, claiming in part the agency is stepping beyond its regulatory authority.
The West Virginia Public Energy Authority has approved an emergency rule shaping how it will carry out a law legislators passed requiring the authority’s approval for fossil fuel plants to
West Virginia Public Energy Authority members got a high level of hydrogen-fueled optimism about a Pleasants County coal-fired plant’s future at their monthly meeting Thursday.
Wednesday marks one year since passage of a landmark federal law designed to spur an influx of public and private climate and renewable energy investments in West Virginia and nationwide.
West Virginia officials on Wednesday welcomed a hydrogen production and carbon capture project planned for Mason County, dismissing concerns they were rushing into an environmentally and economically risky partnership before