President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently unveiled a series of new regulations likely to devastate the American coal-power industry and turn out the lights by increasing costs, reducing the standard of living. Under the regulations, all coal-fired plants that are slated to remain operational in the long-term and all new baseload gas-fired plants will be required to effectively eliminate 90 percent of their carbon emissions, a wildly impractical target.
“The administration has chosen to press ahead with its unrealistic climate agenda,” Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican senator from coal-rich West Virginia and ranking member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, said in a statement. “With the latest iteration of the illegal Clean Power Plan 2.0 announced today, President Biden has inexplicably doubled down on his plans to shut down the backbone of America’s electric grid through unachievable regulatory mandates.”
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