Texas Coal Plants May Not Be Saved by Scaled Back Visibility Rules

The EPA is giving Texas a chance to rework a proposed multibillion-dollar air pollution regulation for utilities, but that likely won’t be enough to save some coal-fired power plants from shutting down, energy analysts told Bloomberg BNA.

The proposal, issued in the final days of the Obama administration, would require Texas power plants to install new pollution controls in order to improve visibility in nearby national parks, including the Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains national parks. Luminant Generation Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, which owns several power plants that would be covered ...