New EPA Regulations to harm U.S. electricity generation, threaten national security

WASHINGTON D.C. --The Environmental Protection Agency will open the comment period for its latest regulatory assault on U.S. energy tomorrow with publication of a new emissions rule in the Federal Register. In advance of this important development, the Institute for Energy research released today arevised reporton the impacts that new and proposed EPA regulations will have on the nation's ability to meet current energy demands. The revised report includes new coal-fired plant closures in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, as well as cancelled coal-to-natural gas conversions in Minnesota, all of which account for an additional 1.5 GW of lost electricity generating capacity in the U.S.