Dive Brief:

• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to give states flexibility in meeting planned standards for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, according to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.
• EPA expects to issue the proposed rules in June, with states expected to be required to file plans two years later on how they would meet the standards.

Dive Insight:

"EPA next June will propose new standards that will also provide significant flexibility to the states that will protect public health from carbon pollution from existing power plants," McCarthy said. Republicans and others are pushing against the planned rules, arguing they will hurt the economy. State regulators have been quite vocal in expressing their desire for flexibility under the coming regulations.