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Fact Sheet: Pollutant-Specific Significant Contribution Finding for GHG Emissions from New EGUs, and Process for Determining Significance of Other NSPS Source Categories

January 7, 2021 - EPA provided a framework for criteria for making a significant contribution finding for greenhouse gas emissions from a source category, for the purpose of regulating those emissions under section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act. The fact sheet is below.

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Fact Sheet: Pollutant-Specific Significant Contribution Finding for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (PDF)(3 pp, 151 K)