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Anonymous09/15/26, 12:03No.1537147To no surprise, GOP poisons the skies for profit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmly433ke05vo
US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
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Anon09/15/26, 12:04No.1537148
Rules aimed at limiting pollution from coal and gas power plants are being scrapped, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced.
The agency says that getting rid of the majority of the Biden-era rules, aimed at improving health and curbing climate change, will save $310bn (£223bn) and lead to a decrease in energy prices.
"The reality is that America produces energy better and cleaner than anywhere else in the world, and our power plants should not be unfairly targeted," the head of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, said.
Some have criticised the move, arguing it will affect public health and set back progress on developing renewable energy sources.
Fossil fuels, which include coal and natural gas, are by far the largest driver of global climate change, according to the United Nations.
The EPA said in a statement that it found the rules on power plant emissions that were introduced under former President Joe Biden had "exceeded the agency's authority" by "requiring control technologies that are not adequately demonstrated, effectively forcing plants to retire rather than setting standards they could actually meet".
The EPA is also seeking to get rid of all other greenhouse gas rules for the power sector.
The changes were proposed last year by Zeldin, who said they would "ensure affordable and reliable energy supplies and drive down the costs of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing while boosting our national security".
The Biden-era regulations called for a major reduction in carbon emissions from power plants, as well as vehicles and industrial facilities. It was predicted that the measures would stop 4,500 premature deaths annually.
"Any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the US power sector," the EPA said on Monday
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Anon09/15/26, 12:06No.1537149
Nathaniel Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – an independent environmental organisation – described the move as "a giant step backward".
"In repealing carbon pollution standards for power plants, EPA has ignored sound science and economics and abdicated its responsibility to protect public health and welfare," Keohane added.
The US is currently the second-biggest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, behind China.
And the power sector makes up about a quarter of US emissions, at roughly 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent each year, according to the latest available estimates.
That means the US power sector emissions are higher than the total emissions of all but a handful of countries.
US power sector emissions have been generally falling over the past couple of decades, albeit with a slight uptick last year, as coal use has fallen.
But Trump has long argued for a resurgence in coal power and has regularly criticised renewables such as wind and solar.
The precise consequences of today's announcement for US emissions - and global climate change - are uncertain.
Some researchers question whether coal will ever make the resurgence that Trump hopes for. They point to the sharp falls in costs of many clean technologies such as solar power over the past decade.
Previous modelling by the independent Rhodium Group suggested rolling back US climate regulations would slow - but not reverse - emissions cuts there.
In 2022, the EPA lost some of its powers to limit greenhouse gas emissions when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of 19 states and some of the nation's largest coal companies, which were worried about the economic cost of the policy and argued the agency did not have the authority to limit emissions across whole states.
Monday's announcement is the latest move by President Donald Trump's administration to walk back policies designed to combat global warming and climate change.
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Anon09/15/26, 12:07No.1537150
In February, the EPA reversed a landmark Obama-era scientific ruling, which held that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. This was challenged by several states and local government....needed to make a separate post for one paragraph lol
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Anon09/15/26, 14:26No.1537157
Good.
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Anon09/15/26, 14:32No.1537158
The sky that never fell is in the same place, or even higher.
>US power sector emissions have been generally falling over the past couple of decades, albeit with a slight uptick last year, as coal use has fallen.
BBC=useless shit turds.
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Anon09/15/26, 21:48No.1537199
Billionaires running coal generators are paying to shill against actually cost effective energy sources too, it seems:https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67367
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Anon09/15/26, 21:59No.1537204
Who cares? Stop shitting up 4chan and go back
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Anon09/16/26, 02:03No.1537249
>the air is clean therefore we don’t need the rules that keep the air clean
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Anon09/16/26, 02:24No.1537252
GAYEST FAGGOT HERE!
NO I did NOT read the article. Even if OP (a notable huge faggot) posted the text I still wouldn't have reddit.
Being a HUGE GAY FAGGOT, I think this is substantial because I'm a fucking retard.
Thanks for listening and FUCK CHUDS and FUCK TRUMP!
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Anon09/16/26, 06:26No.1537284
>The Repeal: The EPA removed the Biden-era rule that forced coal and new natural gas plants to cut 90% of carbon pollution using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.
Oh no. We're all going to coof to died.
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Anon09/16/26, 21:48No.1537388
it's always funny when esl shill is racist to himself
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Anon09/18/26, 18:22No.1537720
Jesus Christ you absolute dips. The sun is free energy and we have thousands upon thousands of sq. Miles of sunny desert we're not using anyway.