{"id":383464,"date":"2025-06-17T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383464"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:21:21","slug":"trumps-epa-ending-obama-biden-war-on-the-american-energy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383464","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s EPA Ending Obama-Biden War on the American Energy Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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EPA Administrator Lee Zelding proposing end to Obama-Biden \u201cClean Power Plan\u201d and reverting back to more reasonable mercury levels set in 2012, which were amended in 2024.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted by Leslie Eastman<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration recently announced its intention to rescind key Biden-era EPA rules that regulate greenhouse gas emissions and mercury pollution from coal and natural gas power plants that stem from the 2015 Obama \u201cClean Power Plan\u201d, Biden\u2019s \u201cClean Power Plan 2.0\u201d, and the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin stated<\/a> that these regulations were seen as overly burdensome to industry and were stifling economic growth. The proposed rollback would eliminate caps on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants and future natural gas plants, as well as relax limits on mercury and other toxic air pollutants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a news conference that Biden-era carbon pollution standards for power plants \u201csuffocate\u201d the economy in order to protect the environment. Zeldin, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in January, stated that the agency\u2019s announcement was a huge step forward in energy dominance for the U.S., while promising that no power plants would emit more than they already do. Currently, the power sector accounts for a quarter of all U.S. emissions, according to the latest EPA emissions data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The proposed repeals are two of the most consequential moves<\/a> from Trump\u2019s EPA as the administration continues dismantling Biden-era climate and clean energy policies. The reversal means that power plants that were slated to be retired will now continue running<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The agency didn\u2019t announce any intent to rewrite regulations to replace the Biden rules on carbon emissions, which could effectively leave carbon emissions from US power plants unregulated if the proposed repeal is finalized. Zeldin announced the agency will revise the rule on mercury and other toxic air pollution, proposing to get rid of a Biden-era rule finalized last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power plants are the second-biggest emitters of planet-warming pollution in the United States, making up around a quarter of the country\u2019s climate pollution. US power plants alone contribute 3% of total global climate pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By seeking to repeal the carbon rules with no replacement, the administration\u2019s proposal is more sweeping than the power plant regulations finalized during Trump\u2019s first term, Carrie Jenks, the executive director of Harvard Law School\u2019s Environmental & Energy Law Program, told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would result in aging coal plants operating for longer periods of time and allow new gas plants to be built with looser pollution restrictions, Jenks said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re starting to see coal fired power plants that were expected to retire continue to operate,\u201d Jenks added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Zeldin officially declared the end to the Biden era war on the American energy industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EPA is proposing to repeal the unconstitutional 2015 Obama \u201cClean Power Plan\u201d, Biden’s \u201cClean Power Plan 2.0\u201d, and the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (reverting to the effective 2012 standards).

These rules imposed massive costs on power plants, raised the cost of\u2026\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Eco-activist agitators and leftist power-mongers who want to control Americans through environmental regulations are upset<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Lisa Patel, a pediatrician and executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, called the proposals \u201cyet another in a series of attacks\u201d by the Trump administration on the nation\u2019s \u201chealth, our children, our climate and the basic idea of clean air and water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She called it \u201cunconscionable to think that our country would move backwards on something as common sense as protecting children from mercury and our planet from worsening hurricanes, wildfires, floods and poor air quality driven by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIgnoring the immense harm to public health from power plant pollution is a clear violation of the law,\u2019\u2019 added Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council. \u201cIf EPA finalizes a slapdash effort to repeal those rules, we\u2019ll see them in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However, I am inclined to think American health would be better served by the actions being taken by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/a>, as well as making energy inexpensive and readily available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental fear-mongering based on pseudoscience no longer has the power it once had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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