EPA Looks to Remove Biden-Era Carbon Limits From Coal, Gas-Fired Power Plants

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The 2024 regulation would have required steep emissions cuts from coal and gas plants using carbon capture technology.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that it is drafting a plan to remove the caps on greenhouse gases from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants across the nation.

An EPA spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the agency has been reconsidering the Biden administrationโ€™s power plant emissions regulations, commonly referred to as โ€œClean Power Plan 2.0,โ€ since March.

The Biden-era Clean Power Plan marks the third major attempt by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. It follows the Obama administrationโ€™s original Clean Power Plan, which required power plants to shift toward lower-carbon sources of electricity.

โ€œMany have voiced concerns that the last administrationโ€™s replacement for that rule is similarly overreaching and an attempt to shut down affordable and reliable electricity generation in the United States, raising prices for American families, and increasing the countryโ€™s reliance on foreign forms of energy,โ€ the EPA spokesperson said. โ€œAs part of this reconsideration, EPA is developing a proposed rule.โ€

The spokesperson did not provide further details about the draft plan but said it will be released after an interagency review and once it is signed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

โ€œPresident [Donald] Trump promised to kill the Clean Power Plan in his first term, and we continue to build on that progress now,โ€ the spokesperson quoted Zeldin as saying. โ€œWe are seeking to ensure that the agency follows the rule of law while providing all Americans with access to reliable and affordable energy.โ€

The first Trump administrationโ€™s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule formally rescinded and replaced the Obama-era regulation.

The ACE rule was struck down by the D.C. Circuit in January 2021, on the final full day of Trumpโ€™s first term. That ruling was itself overturned in 2022, when the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA lacked the authority under the Clean Air Act to implement the Obama Clean Power Plan as it was originally designed.

The Biden-era regulation that the Trump EPA now seeks to replace, formally known as Reg. 2060-AV09, was finalized in early 2024. It mandates that existing coal-fired power plants reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent if they plan to continue operating beyond 2039, while imposing even stricter limits on newly built natural gas-fired power plants.

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