10.2190/ES.33.2.c WG033245M7222852 3 Regulatory Uncertainty and Coal-Fired Power Plant Development 111 119 20120409 20120409 20120409 20120409 WG033245M7222852.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=WG033245M7222852 2 Elizabeth K. Hocking Argonne National Laboratory, Washington, DC In a 5-year period only 12% of the projected coal-fired power plant capacity was actually installed. Among the explanations cited for the decline was the absence of a regulatory structure related to greenhouse gases and climate change. Executive resistance to regulating one of those greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, and judicial insistence that the executive make a clear determination as to why it would or would not use its authority to issue those regulations created a climate of uncertainty affecting at least one segment of the nation's energy sector. G. W. Bush, President Bush's Letter on the Regulation of Carbon Dioxide, <i>FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News</i>, No. 29, American Institute of Physics, March 15, 2001. Available at http://www.physicists.org/fyi/2001/029.html <a target="_blank" href='http://www.physicists.org/fyi/2001/029.html'>http://www.physicists.org/fyi/2001/029.html</a> <i>Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency</i>, 415 F.3d 50 (U. S. App. D. C.), 2005. Clean Air Act, Section 302 (42 U. S. C. 7602). <i>Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency</i>, (127 S. Ct. 1438), 2007. <i>Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency</i>, No. 03-1361, U. S. App. D, 2008. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, <i>Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act</i>, 73 Federal Register, July 30. Sections begin at pages 44354, 44403, and 44453, 2008. NETL (National Energy Technology Laboratory), <i>Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants</i>, Office of Systems Analysis and Planning, June 30, 2008. R. L. Bremby, Testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, March 13, 2008. <i>Friends of the Chattahoochee v. Couch</i>, Docket No. 2008CV146398, Fulton County Superior Court, Georgia, 2008. Idaho Power Company, <i>2006 Integrated Resource Plan</i>, 2006. Longleaf (<i>Longleaf Energy Associates v. Friends of the Chattahoochee</i>), Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Applications for Discretionary Appeal filed with the Court of Appeals, State of Georgia, July 30, 2008.