WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration's most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the []
WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says new rules that would force power plants
Senator Shelley Moore Capito grilled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief over final rules requiring coal-fired power plants in the United States to reduce 90% of their greenhouse pollution into the next decade. Capito, R-W.Va., posed her questions Wednesday during a meeting of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, where she is ranking
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story New climate rule could speed shift away from coal The Biden administration’s new climate rule for power plants is expected to accelerate a shift away from coal, and could speed up renewable adoption. © Associated Press
The EPA recently introduced regulations that could transform the landscape of air, water, and climate pollution in the United States.
The power plant rule that EPA announced on April 25 closely resembles Obama’s Clean Power Plan in key respects — and it will almost certainly suffer the same fate.
Under the EPA rule announced today, coal plants that plan to stay open beyond 2039 would have to cut or capture 90% of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2032.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules Thursday to try and reduce air pollution that makes people sick and destroys the climate.
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of new rules aimed at dramatically reducing pollution from coal and natural gas fired power plants.
Under the EPA rule announced this wee, coal plants that plan to stay open beyond 2039 would have to cut or capture 90% of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2032.
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