"EPA Calls Energy Industry's Bluff." Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, has been promoted for years by companies and fossil fuel companies as a way to reduce climate pollution from the energy sector. Now federal regulators are asking them to walk the walk. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule on Thursday to nearly eliminate climate pollution from the nation's coal- and natural-gas-burning power plants by 2040. Energy companies to replace their fossil-fuel power generators with renewables, a strategy the Supreme Court rejected last summer - the new proposal focuses on what can be achieved with technologies such as carbon capture and storage or CCS. At least they focus on what is theoretically achievable based on optimistic forecasts from CCS proponents. Although the EPA claims that CCS technology is “adequately demonstrated' and 'highly cost-effective', experts are deeply skeptical that it can achieve the promised reductions in emissions. Ultimately, some told Grist, they might find it more economical to shut down fossil fuel power plants and switch to renewable energy. (Joseph Winter,  GRIST)