I’ll say again, I’m no fan of coal. But, until real clean energy can be dependable, affordable, and reliable, we need coal and especially natural gas (and to build nuclear)
EPA to propose rolling back climate rule for power plants Wednesday
The Trump administration will move Wednesday to repeal federal limits on power plant climate pollution, attacking the Biden era’s most ambitious attempt to use regulations to rein in heat-trapping gases from the electric grid, according to six people familiar with the situation.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will announce the repeal of the power plant carbon dioxide rule along with a separate regulation to curb hazardous air pollution such as mercury during an event at agency headquarters, the people said.
The two repeal proposals are the most important EPA regulatory actions of President Donald Trump’s second term to date. Without offering details, EPA said Tuesday that Zeldin will make a “major policy announcement” at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Scrapping the Biden-era power plant rule would effectively shelve regulations for the nation’s second-biggest producer of climate pollution — the electricity sector — which accounts for one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.
The move will come one day after the executive director of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, Jarrod Agen, defended the administration’s focus on coal and natural gas for maintaining the reliability of the electric grid. Speaking at POLITICO’s annual Energy Summit on Tuesday, Agen said Trump is not considering renewable sources such as solar power for the nation’s energy mix, despite those technologies’ support from some GOP lawmakers as well as business leaders such as Elon Musk.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of rolling back mercury rules, but, some say the current regulations are overly strict. Further, really, all of this should have been done by legislation to start with, not regulations. But, Congress likes to abdicate its responsibility on everything to federal agencies.
The rules should be finalized by the end of the year.
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