• The national group that represents electric co-ops says the Environmental Protection Agency would violate Clean Air Act provisions with its proposed standards for carbon emissions.
• Lumping gas and coal together is improper because gas is not available everywhere that coal is used now, the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association argues in comments filed with EPA on its proposals to regulate greenhouse gases.
• The agency also goes too far in its proposal because "carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not commercially available technology," the filing contends.

From the article:

Saying it violates parts of the Clean Air Act, NRECA has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed rule for greenhouse gas emissions from new fossil fuel-based power plants. “While there are a few provisions in this proposal that NRECA supports, they are few indeed and are not nearly sufficient to overcome the proposal’s many flaws and illegalities,” the association said in a 22-page filing with the agency.