EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy ventured into somewhat unfriendly territory at NARUC’s annual meeting to defend the Clean Power Plan.

The Clean Power Plan may face an uncertain future in the courts, but investors and utility executives said it won’t upset the long-term shift away from coal-fired generation and toward increased efficiency.

Meet Montana’s Travis Kavulla, who is not only in his second term on the state’s PSC but also president of NARUC.

The White House convened a “Summit on Nuclear Energy” in an attempt by the Obama administration to make up with the industry.

A senior EPA official and a panel of legal experts gave their own opinions at Infocast’s second Clean Power Plan Summit in Washington last week.

Industry representatives and those that regulate or work with them gathered here last week to discuss the Clean Power Plan and its implications.

The SPP Clean Power Plan Review Task Force delved into a recent staff survey of members that asked whether they preferred a rate-based or mass-based compliance approach, along with the pros and cons of each.

Former EPA official Jeff Holmstead says he’s very confident that the agency’s new carbon emission rule, the Clean Power Plan, will not live long enough to be implemented.

ERCOT released an updated analysis of the Clean Power Plan’s impacts on the Texas grid’s reliability, saying the rule could result in the retirement of at least 4,000 MW of coal-fired generation.

EPA tightened its ground-level ozone limits to 70 parts per billion (ppb), a less strenuous standard than some electric generators had feared and public health advocates had sought.