The Trump EPA’s Plan to End Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulation from Stationary Sources
A draft of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulation to undo the Biden Administration’s regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is undergoing White House review. If finalized, this rule would end EPA regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants, and put on ice greenhouse gas regulation of other stationary sources under the Clean Air Act.
The EPA is not seeking to undo the Biden power plant rules by challenging the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding. Though urged by some, this would have been foolhardy. Rather, according to this New York Times report, the EPA appears to be taking a more strategic approach along the lines of what I suggested in this post last week.
From the NYT story:
In its proposed regulation, the agency argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or to climate change because they are a smal
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