{"id":257416,"date":"2023-05-14T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257416"},"modified":"2023-05-14T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:00:36","slug":"biden-epa-unveils-new-co2-crackdown-on-coal-natural-gas-power-plants-claim-to-achieve-climate-and-public-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257416","title":{"rendered":"Biden EPA Unveils New CO2 Crackdown On Coal & Natural Gas Power Plants \u2013 Claim to achieve \u2018climate and public health benefits\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CLIMATE DEPOT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA release claimed that the new regulations would produce \u201cclimate and public health benefits\u201d worth $85 billion over the next two decades, as well as prevent premature deaths and hospital visits as a result of decreased particulate matter emissions. …<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA Administrator Michael Regan: “Alongside historic investment taking place across America in clean energy manufacturing and deployment, these proposals will help deliver tremendous benefits to the American people, cutting climate pollution and other harmful pollutants, protecting people\u2019s health, and driving American innovation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: \u201cThis administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and has made it clear they are hellbent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal and gas-fueled power plants out of existence, no matter the cost to energy security and reliability,\u201d the lawmaker said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marc Morano comment: “The Biden administration is not content to collapse our transportation system with gas, powered car bans, and EV mandates or to collapse our agricultural system with restrictions on meat-eating and high-yield agriculture. Biden continues his efforts to collapse American energy with his relentless war on reliable power with this EPA plan. This will only result in higher prices and shortages and do nothing for the alleged climate threat. The Biden administration is on a roll to crush Americans: Shortages, skyrocketing prices, destroying U.S. appliances with more water and power restrictions, stifling our air conditioning, and now even more restrictions on U.S. domestic energy production. Will they apply these same ‘climate pollution’ standards to windmills, solar panels, and EV batteries made in China?!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By:\u00a0Admin<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-epa-unveils-new-crackdown-on-power-plants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By<\/strong>  Ben Zeisloft<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> released new carbon<\/a> emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas<\/a>, a move which some energy<\/a> experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs<\/a> for households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new regulations<\/a> unveiled on Thursday morning would seek to avoid 617 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide emissions through 2042, equal to the emissions produced by half of the nation\u2019s cars, as well as reduce the amount of particulate matter released into the atmosphere. The proposed limits would \u201crequire ambitious reductions in carbon pollution based on proven and cost-effective control technologies\u201d at coal and natural gas plants, which account for 60% of power generation in the nation, according to data<\/a> from the Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy proposing new standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, EPA is delivering on its mission to reduce harmful pollution that threatens people\u2019s health and wellbeing,\u201d EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cEPA\u2019s proposal relies on proven, readily available technologies to limit carbon pollution and seizes the momentum already underway in the power sector to move toward a cleaner future. Alongside historic investment taking place across America in clean energy manufacturing and deployment, these proposals will help deliver tremendous benefits to the American people, cutting climate pollution and other harmful pollutants, protecting people\u2019s health, and driving American innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release claimed that the new regulations would produce \u201cclimate and public health benefits\u201d worth $85 billion over the next two decades, as well as prevent premature deaths and hospital visits as a result of decreased particulate matter emissions. The new rules had been widely expected for weeks before their public release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Isaac, a director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told The Daily Wire that the new regulations are \u201cfar-reaching\u201d and will inevitably raise power costs for households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarbon capture technologies are so expensive that the result will be the sudden retirement of reliable generation, and there will be nothing to replace it,\u201d Isaac said. \u201cThis is a prime example of an unelected executive agency run amok, with a single-minded agenda of eliminating fossil fuels and controlling how we produce and consume energy regardless of the costs or consequences, all while doing nothing to mitigate a changing climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new emissions standards come months after the Supreme Court ruled<\/a> in West Virginia v. EPA<\/em> that federal agencies cannot assert \u201chighly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.\u201d Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, told The Daily Wire that the regulations have \u201cno chance of withstanding\u201d scrutiny from the Supreme Court but noted that a ruling might not come for many years, thereby allowing \u201cmuch damage\u201d to the power grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration has established<\/a> a \u201cwhole-of-government effort\u201d to reduce carbon emissions in the public and private sectors. Beyond the introduction of additional EPA rules that would aim to increase<\/a> nationwide adoption of electric cars, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently voiced<\/a> support for a policy that would transition the military to rely exclusively upon electric vehicles by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a frequent skeptic of Biden administration energy policies, announced on Wednesday that he would oppose<\/a> every EPA nominee from the White House until the power plant rules are reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and has made it clear they are hellbent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal and gas-fueled power plants out of existence, no matter the cost to energy security and reliability,\u201d the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EPA release claimed that the new regulations would produce \u201cclimate and public health benefits\u201d worth $85 billion over the next two decades, as well as prevent premature deaths and hospital visits as a result of decreased particulate matter emissions. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":257419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818336,691819550,691818076,691818073,691818135,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-257416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-biden-administration","9":"tag-climate-and-public-health-benefits","10":"tag-co2","11":"tag-epa","12":"tag-ev","13":"tag-net-zero","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00574384abba1a8.image-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C855&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14XS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337513,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337513","url_meta":{"origin":257416,"position":0},"title":"Natural Gas Industry\u2019s Smear of Coal Is False and Self-Defeating","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/07\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Smearing coal has become a marketing strategy of a natural gas industry that embraces pseudoscientific views of coal combustion as being hazardous.","rel":"","context":"In \"CO2\"","block_context":{"text":"CO2","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OIG-38.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OIG-38.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OIG-38.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OIG-38.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":345961,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345961","url_meta":{"origin":257416,"position":1},"title":"Offshore wind\u2019s bogus benefits bragged on","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Resources for the Future (RFF) has produced a combined cost benefit analysis for 32 U.S. offshore wind projects now in development. 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