After years of legal fights around presidents' authority to limit how much carbon dioxide power plants emit, President Joe Biden is proposing a tough new standard that aims to virtually eliminate emissions from that industry before 2040.
President Joe Biden's administration will announce Thursday tough new rules on power plant emissions designed to force the adoption of carbon capture technology.legal fights around presidents' authority to limit how much carbon dioxide power plants emit
The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Thursday new pollution standards that will require virtually all coal- and natural gas-fired power plants in the United States to install carbon capture equipment on their smokestacks or utilize clean hydrogen fuel, with deadlines for compliance beginning in just seven years.a power sector that represents about a quarter of U.S.
"We're looking at a negligible impact on prices while achieving climate and health benefits that far exceed the cost," he said.which set industry-wide limits on emissions, went beyond air pollution authority granted the EPA under the Clean Air Act, which Congress last updated in 1990.forcing utilities to build wind and solar farms, as the Obama-era rule would have done
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